[PATCH 5.15 153/244] tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-08-23T10:17:20Z

From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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>
---
kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
@@ -320,6 +320,24 @@ static unsigned long get_event_field(str

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)