From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DD578223708; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761007933; cv=none; b=Y/ogEsiIeRTzIZg294Twm5df7Y8YglLnAaAVUV5XwGQzODDwESiHWDmRoZitKEH2jsbdMTNmc0lKqOf5d7Z7JnWHnFlh+7bPQ/X5HijMUGE0mamtrssv9eqiE9sZQtRNPunAmrq6l5HmmI7q63dpBALBDY9Znu7C3gondH4sHMU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761007933; c=relaxed/simple; bh=CC+nV2XIXzlcipUqTEh6D/1SpprWiQyjy/PwpYbdZyc=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type; b=q7FwmRL4ADAPbz+IZvIc1RyN9hFAJtVa/9pxWlKYpz3RY2378eweuxKQqgDduELa2vjojxtTWvDTEtheImwn90f5Mat81SSPNJGnf24SfAQKxAT0dsdA2UgH/m05OaqZmjunqn+sIHyoVcrlXOGYIv0QkRjh+S1BQPNkeSxUWa4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=afEMjMtV; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="afEMjMtV" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8495BC113D0; Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:52:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761007932; bh=CC+nV2XIXzlcipUqTEh6D/1SpprWiQyjy/PwpYbdZyc=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:From; b=afEMjMtVD0ZbCJKW3jtf8A6x58Pb6LbFqbdch4JCcn88IY4rT3xSvxr3DfVcHXNEq vrJ31rKp9Th3XTLXIAq1ZBrJvcvFdYyzXAciqaBoqI2Uri125DlpA6Xr86mmBdWtgn Vh4qwIL3G/dwrBEsN4KqytKaoFLR3caqEA5bQkWzfo/si4pVk60m54r8IF7PhCEaqA 8XB4ZB04UdZMmHi0JVNKtiAGqpAxpEkGaS3m/64GsWJrEvXmY5d50wjApcozMssuhQ lFH0TQyVXwOxDeXOPHeYCMVdvdWjih1StXA8MdCdLkIfhG60fgyFVr33gDJEw0dNsp jmYmDVOIOz9Pg== Received: from rostedt by gandalf with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1vB0c5-0000000207q-1fFG; Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: <20251021005233.251192796@kernel.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.68 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:52:01 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Mark Rutland , Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Namhyung Kim , Takaya Saeki , Tom Zanussi , Thomas Gleixner , Ian Rogers , Douglas Raillard , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Adrian Hunter , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH v4 06/13] tracing: Display some syscall arrays as strings References: <20251021005155.705735078@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: Steven Rostedt Some of the system calls that read a fixed length of memory from the user space address are not arrays but strings. Take a bit away from the nb_args field in the syscall meta data to use as a flag to denote that the system call's user_arg_size is being used as a string. The nb_args should never be more than 6, so 7 bits is plenty to hold that number. When the user_arg_is_str flag that, when set, will display the data array from the user space address as a string and not an array. This will allow the output to look like this: sys_sethostname(name: 0x5584310eb2a0 "debian", len: 6) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- include/trace/syscall.h | 4 +++- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/trace/syscall.h b/include/trace/syscall.h index 9413c139da66..0dd7f2b33431 100644 --- a/include/trace/syscall.h +++ b/include/trace/syscall.h @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ * @name: name of the syscall * @syscall_nr: number of the syscall * @nb_args: number of parameters it takes + * @user_arg_is_str: set if the arg for @user_arg_size is a string * @user_arg_size: holds @arg that has size of the user space to read * @user_mask: mask of @args that will read user space * @types: list of types as strings @@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ struct syscall_metadata { const char *name; int syscall_nr; - u8 nb_args; + u8 nb_args:7; + u8 user_arg_is_str:1; s8 user_arg_size; short user_mask; const char **types; diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index 6b9eb5a8e156..5a318c1592b9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ print_syscall_enter(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags, ptr = (void *)ent + (val & 0xffff); len = val >> 16; - if (entry->user_arg_size < 0) { + if (entry->user_arg_size < 0 || entry->user_arg_is_str) { trace_seq_printf(s, " \"%.*s\"", len, ptr); continue; } @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ print_syscall_exit(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags, static int __init __set_enter_print_fmt(struct syscall_metadata *entry, char *buf, int len) { + bool is_string = entry->user_arg_is_str; int i; int pos = 0; @@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ __set_enter_print_fmt(struct syscall_metadata *entry, char *buf, int len) continue; /* Add the format for the user space string or array */ - if (entry->user_arg_size < 0) + if (entry->user_arg_size < 0 || is_string) pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO, " \\\"%%s\\\""); else pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO, " (%%s)"); @@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ __set_enter_print_fmt(struct syscall_metadata *entry, char *buf, int len) if (!(BIT(i) & entry->user_mask)) continue; /* The user space data for arg has name ___val */ - if (entry->user_arg_size < 0) { + if (entry->user_arg_size < 0 || is_string) { pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO, ", __get_str(__%s_val)", entry->args[i]); } else { @@ -781,6 +782,21 @@ static void check_faultable_syscall(struct trace_event_call *call, int nr) sys_data->user_mask = BIT(1); sys_data->user_arg_size = 2; break; + /* user arg 0 with size arg at 1 as string */ + case __NR_setdomainname: + case __NR_sethostname: + sys_data->user_mask = BIT(0); + sys_data->user_arg_size = 1; + sys_data->user_arg_is_str = 1; + break; +#if defined(__ARCH_WANT_TIME32_SYSCALLS) || __BITS_PER_LONG != 32 + /* user arg 4 with size arg at 3 as string */ + case __NR_kexec_file_load: + sys_data->user_mask = BIT(4); + sys_data->user_arg_size = 3; + sys_data->user_arg_is_str = 1; + break; +#endif /* user arg at position 0 */ case __NR_access: case __NR_acct: -- 2.51.0