ACK: [SRU][Q][PATCH 1/1] rv: Fully convert enabled_monitors to use list_head as iterator

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Nov 12 12:35:28 UTC 2025


On 12/11/2025 12:59, Edoardo Canepa wrote:
> From: Nam Cao <namcao at linutronix.de>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2131136
> 
> The callbacks in enabled_monitors_seq_ops are inconsistent. Some treat the
> iterator as struct rv_monitor *, while others treat the iterator as struct
> list_head *.
> 
> This causes a wrong type cast and crashes the system as reported by Nathan.
> 
> Convert everything to use struct list_head * as iterator. This also makes
> enabled_monitors consistent with available_monitors.
> 
> Fixes: de090d1ccae1 ("rv: Fix wrong type cast in enabled_monitors_next()")
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20250923002004.GA2836051@ax162/
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao at linutronix.de>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco at redhat.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251002082235.973099-1-namcao@linutronix.de
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco at redhat.com>
> (cherry picked from commit 103541e6a5854b08a25e4caa61e990af1009a52e)
> Signed-off-by: Edoardo Canepa <edoardo.canepa at canonical.com>

Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>> ---
>   kernel/trace/rv/rv.c | 12 ++++++------
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
> index 48338520376f..43e9ea473cda 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/rv/rv.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static void *enabled_monitors_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
>   
>   	list_for_each_entry_continue(mon, &rv_monitors_list, list) {
>   		if (mon->enabled)
> -			return mon;
> +			return &mon->list;
>   	}
>   
>   	return NULL;
> @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ static void *enabled_monitors_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos)
>   
>   static void *enabled_monitors_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
>   {
> -	struct rv_monitor *mon;
> +	struct list_head *head;
>   	loff_t l;
>   
>   	mutex_lock(&rv_interface_lock);
> @@ -517,15 +517,15 @@ static void *enabled_monitors_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
>   	if (list_empty(&rv_monitors_list))
>   		return NULL;
>   
> -	mon = list_entry(&rv_monitors_list, struct rv_monitor, list);
> +	head = &rv_monitors_list;
>   
>   	for (l = 0; l <= *pos; ) {
> -		mon = enabled_monitors_next(m, mon, &l);
> -		if (!mon)
> +		head = enabled_monitors_next(m, head, &l);
> +		if (!head)
>   			break;
>   	}
>   
> -	return mon;
> +	return head;
>   }
>   
>   /*

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