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authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2022-08-20 09:43:19 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-08-25 11:40:28 +0200
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tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields
commit f04dec93466a0481763f3b56cdadf8076e28bfbf upstream. Currently when an event probe (eprobe) hooks to a string field, it does not display it as a string, but instead as a number. This makes the field rather useless. Handle the different kinds of strings, dynamic, static, relational/dynamic etc. Now when a string field is used, the ":string" type can be used to display it: echo "e:sw sched/sched_switch comm=$next_comm:string" > dynamic_events Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820134400.959640191@goodmis.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Fixes: 7491e2c44278 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events") Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
index 815c02855dab..32688357c6da 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
@@ -320,6 +320,24 @@ static unsigned long get_event_field(struct fetch_insn *code, void *rec)
addr = rec + field->offset;
+ if (is_string_field(field)) {
+ switch (field->filter_type) {
+ case FILTER_DYN_STRING:
+ val = (unsigned long)(rec + (*(unsigned int *)addr & 0xffff));
+ break;
+ case FILTER_STATIC_STRING:
+ val = (unsigned long)addr;
+ break;
+ case FILTER_PTR_STRING:
+ val = (unsigned long)(*(char *)addr);
+ break;
+ default:
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return val;
+ }
+
switch (field->size) {
case 1:
if (field->is_signed)