[PATCH] tracepoint: Do not warn on EEXIST or ENOENT

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Sat Jun 26 2021 - 10:03:39 EST


syzbot is hitting WARN_ON_ONCE() at tracepoint_add_func() [1], but
func_add() returning -EEXIST and func_remove() returning -ENOENT are
not kernel bugs that can justify crashing the system.

Commit d66a270be3310d7a ("tracepoint: Do not warn on ENOMEM") says that
tracepoint should only warn when a kernel API user does not respect the
required preconditions (e.g. same tracepoint enabled twice, or called
to remove a tracepoint that does not exist). But WARN*() must be used to
denote kernel bugs and not to print simple warnings. If someone wants to
print warnings, pr_warn() etc. should be used instead.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=41f4318cf01762389f4d1c1c459da4f542fe5153 [1]
Reported-by: syzbot <syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: syzbot <syzbot+721aa903751db87aa244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/tracepoint.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index 9f478d29b926..3cfa37a3d05c 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -287,10 +287,8 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
tp_funcs = rcu_dereference_protected(tp->funcs,
lockdep_is_held(&tracepoints_mutex));
old = func_add(&tp_funcs, func, prio);
- if (IS_ERR(old)) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(PTR_ERR(old) != -ENOMEM);
+ if (IS_ERR(old))
return PTR_ERR(old);
- }

/*
* rcu_assign_pointer has as smp_store_release() which makes sure
@@ -320,7 +318,7 @@ static int tracepoint_remove_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
tp_funcs = rcu_dereference_protected(tp->funcs,
lockdep_is_held(&tracepoints_mutex));
old = func_remove(&tp_funcs, func);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(old)))
+ if (IS_ERR(old))
return PTR_ERR(old);

if (tp_funcs == old)
--
2.18.4