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tracing: Do not add length to print format in synthetic events
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-115358 commit e1a453a Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Date: Mon Apr 7 15:41:39 2025 -0400 tracing: Do not add length to print format in synthetic events The following causes a vsnprintf fault: # echo 's:wake_lat char[] wakee; u64 delta;' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs if !(common_flags & 0x18)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wake_lat,next_comm,$delta)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger Because the synthetic event's "wakee" field is created as a dynamic string (even though the string copied is not). The print format to print the dynamic string changed from "%*s" to "%s" because another location (__set_synth_event_print_fmt()) exported this to user space, and user space did not need that. But it is still used in print_synth_event(), and the output looks like: <idle>-0 [001] d..5. 193.428167: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=155 sshd-session-879 [001] d..5. 193.811080: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=58 <idle>-0 [002] d..5. 193.811198: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)bashdelta=91 bash-880 [002] d..5. 193.811371: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u35:2delta=21 <idle>-0 [001] d..5. 193.811516: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=129 sshd-session-879 [001] d..5. 193.967576: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=50 The length isn't needed as the string is always nul terminated. Just print the string and not add the length (which was hard coded to the max string length anyway). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407154139.69955768@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 4d38328 ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields"); Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
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kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c

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@@ -377,7 +377,6 @@ static enum print_line_t print_synth_event(struct trace_iterator *iter,
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union trace_synth_field *data = &entry->fields[n_u64];
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trace_seq_printf(s, print_fmt, se->fields[i]->name,
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STR_VAR_LEN_MAX,
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(char *)entry + data->as_dynamic.offset,
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i == se->n_fields - 1 ? "" : " ");
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n_u64++;

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