From efbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:55:07 +0900 Subject: tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments To help debugging kernel, show real address for trace event arguments in tracefs/trace{,pipe} instead of hashed pointer value. Since ftrace human-readable format uses vsprintf(), all %p are translated to hash values instead of pointer address. However, when debugging the kernel, raw address value gives a hint when comparing with the memory mapping in the kernel. (Those are sometimes used with crash log, which is not hashed too) So converting %p with %px when calling trace_seq_printf(). Moreover, this is not improving the security because the tracefs can be used only by root user and the raw address values are readable from tracefs/percpu/cpu*/trace_pipe_raw file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160277370703.29307.5134475491761971203.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.h') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index a9e13bd5a41b..6c3ea6f95e68 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -581,6 +581,8 @@ struct trace_entry *trace_find_next_entry(struct trace_iterator *iter, void trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(struct trace_buffer *buffer, struct ring_buffer_event *event); +const char *trace_event_format(struct trace_iterator *iter, const char *fmt); + int trace_empty(struct trace_iterator *iter); void *trace_find_next_entry_inc(struct trace_iterator *iter); -- cgit v1.2.3