Patch "tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
tracing-fix-stacktrace-skip-depth-in-trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 15:48:54 -0500
Subject: tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()

From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <[email protected]>

commit 7717c6be699975f6733d278b13b7c4295d73caf6 upstream.

While cleaning the stacktrace code I unintentially changed the skip depth of trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() from 0 to 6. kprobes uses this function, and with skipping 6 call backs, it can easily produce no stack.

Here's how I tested it:

 # echo 'p:ext4_sync_fs ext4_sync_fs ' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/trace
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457060: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457063: kernel_stack:         <stack trace>
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457086: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457087: kernel_stack:         <stack trace>
            sync-2394  [005]   502.457091: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)

After putting back the skip stack to zero, we have:

            sync-2270  [000]   748.052693: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.052695: kernel_stack:         <stack trace>
 => iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 => sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053017: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053019: kernel_stack:         <stack trace>
 => iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
 => sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
 => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053381: ext4_sync_fs: (ffffffff81317650)
            sync-2270  [000]   748.053383: kernel_stack:         <stack trace>

=> iterate_supers (ffffffff8126412e)
=> sys_sync (ffffffff8129c4b6)
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff8181f0b2)

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1751,7 +1751,7 @@ void trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs(str
 {
 	__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
 
-	ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, flags, 6, pc, regs);
+	ftrace_trace_stack(tr, buffer, flags, 0, pc, regs);
 	ftrace_trace_userstack(buffer, flags, pc);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/tracing-fix-stacktrace-skip-depth-in-trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs.patch queue-4.4/tracing-stacktrace-show-entire-trace-if-passed-in-function-not-found.patch