diff --git a/include/trace/events/iocost.h b/include/trace/events/iocost.h
index e282ce02fa2d60546b557a3f81de9b101273507a..6d1626e7a4ce17905a585ea16a8e304cede7626b 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/iocost.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/iocost.h
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(iocost_ioc_vrate_adj,
 
 	TP_fast_assign(
 		__assign_str(devname, ioc_name(ioc));
-		__entry->old_vrate = atomic64_read(&ioc->vtime_rate);;
+		__entry->old_vrate = atomic64_read(&ioc->vtime_rate);
 		__entry->new_vrate = new_vrate;
 		__entry->busy_level = ioc->busy_level;
 		__entry->read_missed_ppm = missed_ppm[READ];
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index debbbb0832866892bdcedfb97100f0882d19ccd3..ccd6a5ade3e9f669ad7279151f46ffc449151712 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER
 	  sequence is then dynamically patched into a tracer call when
 	  tracing is enabled by the administrator. If it's runtime disabled
 	  (the bootup default), then the overhead of the instructions is very
-	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks.
+	  small and not measurable even in micro-benchmarks (at least on
+	  x86, but may have impact on other architectures).
 
 config FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
 	bool "Kernel Function Graph Tracer"
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index a8cfac0611bc390c72747b4c8845df9adff07861..b8dd546270750e17c3e7d447bf8b180b02ad0016 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -9864,6 +9864,12 @@ void trace_init_global_iter(struct trace_iterator *iter)
 	/* Output in nanoseconds only if we are using a clock in nanoseconds. */
 	if (trace_clocks[iter->tr->clock_id].in_ns)
 		iter->iter_flags |= TRACE_FILE_TIME_IN_NS;
+
+	/* Can not use kmalloc for iter.temp and iter.fmt */
+	iter->temp = static_temp_buf;
+	iter->temp_size = STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE;
+	iter->fmt = static_fmt_buf;
+	iter->fmt_size = STATIC_FMT_BUF_SIZE;
 }
 
 void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode)
@@ -9896,11 +9902,6 @@ void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode oops_dump_mode)
 
 	/* Simulate the iterator */
 	trace_init_global_iter(&iter);
-	/* Can not use kmalloc for iter.temp and iter.fmt */
-	iter.temp = static_temp_buf;
-	iter.temp_size = STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE;
-	iter.fmt = static_fmt_buf;
-	iter.fmt_size = STATIC_FMT_BUF_SIZE;
 
 	for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) {
 		atomic_inc(&per_cpu_ptr(iter.array_buffer->data, cpu)->disabled);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 48e82e141d54591a28e55670a5f6863e6dbcc962..e87a46794079dd30dac84bfa91fc19c99339bdd7 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -4430,6 +4430,8 @@ static int parse_var_defs(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data)
 
 			s = kstrdup(field_str, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!s) {
+				kfree(hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[n_vars]);
+				hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[n_vars] = NULL;
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
 				goto free;
 			}
diff --git a/samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c b/samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c
index 18b1e5c4b43151bde446ea7562cac9788ed96cc1..e22da8573116e0500c2eb41f2f8672ade8e2bd84 100644
--- a/samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c
+++ b/samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 #define BACKTRACE_DEPTH 16
 #define MAX_SYMBOL_LEN 4096
-struct fprobe sample_probe;
+static struct fprobe sample_probe;
 static unsigned long nhit;
 
 static char symbol[MAX_SYMBOL_LEN] = "kernel_clone";
diff --git a/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c b/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
index f991a66b5b022a83c789d544b43a9be89be5a172..fd346f58ddbaf10889d3de29fd7399cd90a94258 100644
--- a/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
+++ b/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
@@ -16,9 +16,8 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 
-#define MAX_SYMBOL_LEN	64
-static char symbol[MAX_SYMBOL_LEN] = "kernel_clone";
-module_param_string(symbol, symbol, sizeof(symbol), 0644);
+static char symbol[KSYM_NAME_LEN] = "kernel_clone";
+module_param_string(symbol, symbol, KSYM_NAME_LEN, 0644);
 
 /* For each probe you need to allocate a kprobe structure */
 static struct kprobe kp = {
diff --git a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c b/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
index 228321ecb16168e1a61311dda0e7deb783d5dd9c..cbf16542d84e7c1527629de66adb7f5ec057ec62 100644
--- a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
+++ b/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/ktime.h>
-#include <linux/limits.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 
-static char func_name[NAME_MAX] = "kernel_clone";
-module_param_string(func, func_name, NAME_MAX, S_IRUGO);
+static char func_name[KSYM_NAME_LEN] = "kernel_clone";
+module_param_string(func, func_name, KSYM_NAME_LEN, 0644);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(func, "Function to kretprobe; this module will report the"
 			" function's execution time");