Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format

Masami Hiramatsu
2025-07-14T14:14:14Z

On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:37:32 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:45:24 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > Hmm, Ok. But when I sanitized the field->type in
> > update_event_fields(), it did not work. So something
> > we missed.
>
> Ah, it's because we test to see if the event has enums or not before
> calling update_event_fields. We need something like this:
>
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index 120531268abf..52829b950022 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -3349,6 +3349,8 @@ void trace_event_eval_update(struct trace_eval_map **map, int len)
> }
> update_event_printk(call, map[i]);
> update_event_fields(call, map[i]);
> + } else if (need_sanitize_field_type(__type)) {
> + sanitize_fields(call);
> }
> }
> cond_resched();
>
>
> And have the attribute fixed in both update_event_fields() and have
> your own sanitize_fields() that just does the attribute update.

Hmm, is this called unless loading modules? It seems that the
function is only kicked from trace_module_notify() -> trace_module_add_evals() -> trace_insert_eval_map() (but if mod has any trace_evals)

This sanitizing must be done with/without the module loading even if it
had no trace_evals. Thus I think it is hard to be done in
trace_event_eval_update().

Thank you,

>
> -- Steve

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>