From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>,
Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 12/13] tracing: Check for printable characters when printing field dyn strings
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:52:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251021005234.245481539@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20251021005155.705735078@kernel.org
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the "fields" option is enabled, it prints each trace event field
based on its type. But a dynamic array and a dynamic string can both have
a "char *" type. Printing it as a string can cause escape characters to be
printed and mess up the output of the trace.
For dynamic strings, test if there are any non-printable characters, and
if so, print both the string with the non printable characters as '.', and
the print the hex value of the array.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index 97db0b0ccf3e..718b255b6fd8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -950,7 +950,9 @@ static void print_fields(struct trace_iterator *iter, struct trace_event_call *c
int offset;
int len;
int ret;
+ int i;
void *pos;
+ char *str;
list_for_each_entry_reverse(field, head, link) {
trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, " %s=", field->name);
@@ -977,8 +979,29 @@ static void print_fields(struct trace_iterator *iter, struct trace_event_call *c
trace_seq_puts(&iter->seq, "<OVERFLOW>");
break;
}
- pos = (void *)iter->ent + offset;
- trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "%.*s", len, (char *)pos);
+ str = (char *)iter->ent + offset;
+ /* Check if there's any non printable strings */
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ if (str[i] && !(isascii(str[i]) && isprint(str[i])))
+ break;
+ }
+ if (i < len) {
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ if (isascii(str[i]) && isprint(str[i]))
+ trace_seq_putc(&iter->seq, str[i]);
+ else
+ trace_seq_putc(&iter->seq, '.');
+ }
+ trace_seq_puts(&iter->seq, " (");
+ for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
+ if (i)
+ trace_seq_putc(&iter->seq, ':');
+ trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "%02x", str[i]);
+ }
+ trace_seq_putc(&iter->seq, ')');
+ } else {
+ trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "%.*s", len, str);
+ }
break;
case FILTER_PTR_STRING:
if (!iter->fmt_size)
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-21 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-21 0:51 [PATCH v4 00/13] tracing: Show contents of syscall trace event user space fields Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:51 ` [PATCH v4 01/13] tracing: Make trace_user_fault_read() exposed to rest of tracing Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:51 ` [PATCH v4 02/13] tracing: Have syscall trace events read user space string Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:51 ` [PATCH v4 03/13] perf: tracing: Simplify perf_sysenter_enable/disable() with guards Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:51 ` [PATCH v4 04/13] perf: tracing: Have perf system calls read user space Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 05/13] tracing: Have system call events record user array data Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 06/13] tracing: Display some syscall arrays as strings Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 07/13] tracing: Allow syscall trace events to read more than one user parameter Steven Rostedt
2025-10-24 4:36 ` kernel test robot
2025-10-24 20:16 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 08/13] tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount written Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 09/13] tracing: Show printable characters in syscall arrays Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 10/13] tracing: Add trace_seq_pop() and seq_buf_pop() Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 11/13] tracing: Add parsing of flags to the sys_enter_openat trace event Steven Rostedt
2025-10-21 0:52 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-10-21 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 13/13] tracing: Have persistent ring buffer print syscalls normally Steven Rostedt
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