From: Douglas Raillard douglas.raillard@arm.com

Currently, using synth_event_delete() will fail if the event is being used (tracing in progress), but that is normally done in the module exit function. At that stage, failing is problematic as returning a non-zero status means the module will become locked (impossible to unload or reload again).

Instead, ensure the module exit function does not get called in the first place by increasing the module refcnt when the event is enabled.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Fixes: 35ca5207c2d11 ("tracing: Add synthetic event command generation functions") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250318180906.226841-1-douglas.raillard@arm.com Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard douglas.raillard@arm.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c index 07ff8be8267e..463b0073629a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c @@ -852,6 +852,34 @@ static struct trace_event_fields synth_event_fields_array[] = { {} };

+static int synth_event_reg(struct trace_event_call *call, + enum trace_reg type, void *data) +{ + struct synth_event *event = container_of(call, struct synth_event, call); + + switch (type) { + case TRACE_REG_REGISTER: + case TRACE_REG_PERF_REGISTER: + if (!try_module_get(event->mod)) + return -EBUSY; + break; + default: + break; + } + + int ret = trace_event_reg(call, type, data); + + switch (type) { + case TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER: + case TRACE_REG_PERF_UNREGISTER: + module_put(event->mod); + break; + default: + break; + } + return ret; +} + static int register_synth_event(struct synth_event *event) { struct trace_event_call *call = &event->call; @@ -881,7 +909,7 @@ static int register_synth_event(struct synth_event *event) goto out; } call->flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_TRACEPOINT; - call->class->reg = trace_event_reg; + call->class->reg = synth_event_reg; call->class->probe = trace_event_raw_event_synth; call->data = event; call->tp = event->tp;