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Revision v3 of 3 in this series; 1 review trailer (1 from subsystem maintainers).

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[PATCH v3 1/5] tracing: Fix checking of freed trace_event_file for hist files

From: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Date: 2026-02-19 16:27:45
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, tracing · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu

The event_hist_open() and event_hist_poll() functions currently retrieve
a trace_event_file pointer from a file struct by invoking
event_file_data(), which simply returns file->f_inode->i_private. The
functions then check if the pointer is NULL to determine whether the event
is still valid. This approach is flawed because i_private is assigned when
an eventfs inode is allocated and remains set throughout its lifetime.
Instead, the code should call event_file_file(), which checks for
EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED. Using the incorrect access function may result in the
code potentially opening a hist file for an event that is being removed or
becoming stuck while polling on this file.

Correct the access method to event_file_file() in both functions.

Fixes: 1bd13edbbed6 ("tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index e6f449f53afc..768df987419e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -5784,7 +5784,7 @@ static __poll_t event_hist_poll(struct file *file, struct poll_table_struct *wai
 
 	guard(mutex)(&event_mutex);
 
-	event_file = event_file_data(file);
+	event_file = event_file_file(file);
 	if (!event_file)
 		return EPOLLERR;
 
@@ -5822,7 +5822,7 @@ static int event_hist_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 
 	guard(mutex)(&event_mutex);
 
-	event_file = event_file_data(file);
+	event_file = event_file_file(file);
 	if (!event_file) {
 		ret = -ENODEV;
 		goto err;
-- 
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