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<title>tracing: Introduce helpers to safely handle dynamic-sized sockaddrs</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T16:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2022-01-11T17:43:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d07c9ad622474616e94572e59e725c2c4a494fb4 ]

Enable a struct sockaddr to be stored in a trace record as a
dynamically-sized field. The common cases are AF_INET and AF_INET6
which are different sizes, and are vastly smaller than a struct
sockaddr_storage.

These are safer because, when used properly, the size of the
sockaddr destination field in each trace record is now guaranteed
to be the same as the source address that is being copied into it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/164182978641.8391.8277203495236105391.stgit@bazille.1015granger.net/
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 948f072ada23 ("SUNRPC: always free ctxt when freeing deferred request")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d07c9ad622474616e94572e59e725c2c4a494fb4 ]

Enable a struct sockaddr to be stored in a trace record as a
dynamically-sized field. The common cases are AF_INET and AF_INET6
which are different sizes, and are vastly smaller than a struct
sockaddr_storage.

These are safer because, when used properly, the size of the
sockaddr destination field in each trace record is now guaranteed
to be the same as the source address that is being copied into it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/164182978641.8391.8277203495236105391.stgit@bazille.1015granger.net/
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 948f072ada23 ("SUNRPC: always free ctxt when freeing deferred request")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use alignof__(struct {type b;}) instead of offsetof()</title>
<updated>2023-01-24T06:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-02T19:44:12+00:00</published>
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commit 09794a5a6c348f629b35fc1687071a1622ef4265 upstream.

Simplify:

  #define ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) ((int)(offsetof(struct {char a; type b;}, b)))

with

  #define  ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) __alignof__(struct {type b;})

Which works just the same.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a7d202457150472588df0bd3b7334b3f@AcuMS.aculab.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220802154412.513c50e3@gandalf.local.home

Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 09794a5a6c348f629b35fc1687071a1622ef4265 upstream.

Simplify:

  #define ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) ((int)(offsetof(struct {char a; type b;}, b)))

with

  #define  ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) __alignof__(struct {type b;})

Which works just the same.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a7d202457150472588df0bd3b7334b3f@AcuMS.aculab.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220802154412.513c50e3@gandalf.local.home

Suggested-by: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/perf: Avoid -Warray-bounds warning for __rel_loc macro</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-25T22:00:37+00:00</published>
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commit c6d777acdf8f62d4ebaef0e5c6cd8fedbd6e8546 upstream.

As done for trace_events.h, also fix the __rel_loc macro in perf.h,
which silences the -Warray-bounds warning:

In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:253,
                 from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/buildid.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c:2:
In function '__fortify_strcpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_foo_rel_loc' at samples/trace_events/./trace-events-sample.h:519:1:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:47:33: warning: '__builtin_strcpy' offset 12 is out of the bounds [
0, 4] [-Warray-bounds]
   47 | #define __underlying_strcpy     __builtin_strcpy
      |                                 ^
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:445:24: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strcpy'
  445 |                 return __underlying_strcpy(p, q);
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Also make __data struct member a proper flexible array to avoid future
problems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220125220037.2738923-1-keescook@chromium.org

Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 55de2c0b5610c ("tracing: Add '__rel_loc' using trace event macros")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c6d777acdf8f62d4ebaef0e5c6cd8fedbd6e8546 upstream.

As done for trace_events.h, also fix the __rel_loc macro in perf.h,
which silences the -Warray-bounds warning:

In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:253,
                 from ./include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
                 from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
                 from ./include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/buildid.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c:2:
In function '__fortify_strcpy',
    inlined from 'perf_trace_foo_rel_loc' at samples/trace_events/./trace-events-sample.h:519:1:
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:47:33: warning: '__builtin_strcpy' offset 12 is out of the bounds [
0, 4] [-Warray-bounds]
   47 | #define __underlying_strcpy     __builtin_strcpy
      |                                 ^
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:445:24: note: in expansion of macro '__underlying_strcpy'
  445 |                 return __underlying_strcpy(p, q);
      |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Also make __data struct member a proper flexible array to avoid future
problems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220125220037.2738923-1-keescook@chromium.org

Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 55de2c0b5610c ("tracing: Add '__rel_loc' using trace event macros")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use a struct alignof to determine trace event field alignment</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:24:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-31T05:59:28+00:00</published>
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commit 4c3d2f9388d36eb28640a220a6f908328442d873 upstream.

alignof() gives an alignment of types as they would be as standalone
variables. But alignment in structures might be different, and when
building the fields of events, the alignment must be the actual
alignment otherwise the field offsets may not match what they actually
are.

This caused trace-cmd to crash, as libtraceevent did not check if the
field offset was bigger than the event. The write_msr and read_msr
events on 32 bit had their fields incorrect, because it had a u64 field
between two ints. alignof(u64) would give 8, but the u64 field was at a
4 byte alignment.

Define a macro as:

   ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) ((int)(offsetof(struct {char a; type b;}, b)))

which gives the actual alignment of types in a structure.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220731015928.7ab3a154@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4c3d2f9388d36eb28640a220a6f908328442d873 upstream.

alignof() gives an alignment of types as they would be as standalone
variables. But alignment in structures might be different, and when
building the fields of events, the alignment must be the actual
alignment otherwise the field offsets may not match what they actually
are.

This caused trace-cmd to crash, as libtraceevent did not check if the
field offset was bigger than the event. The write_msr and read_msr
events on 32 bit had their fields incorrect, because it had a u64 field
between two ints. alignof(u64) would give 8, but the u64 field was at a
4 byte alignment.

Define a macro as:

   ALIGN_STRUCTFIELD(type) ((int)(offsetof(struct {char a; type b;}, b)))

which gives the actual alignment of types in a structure.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220731015928.7ab3a154@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Avoid -Warray-bounds warning for __rel_loc macro</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:24:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-25T14:19:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 58c5724ec2cdd72b22107ec5de00d90cc4797796 ]

Since -Warray-bounds checks the destination size from the type of given
pointer, __assign_rel_str() macro gets warned because it passes the
pointer to the 'u32' field instead of 'trace_event_raw_*' data structure.
Pass the data address calculated from the 'trace_event_raw_*' instead of
'u32' __rel_loc field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220125233154.dac280ed36944c0c2fe6f3ac@kernel.org

Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[ This did not fix the warning, but is still a nice clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 58c5724ec2cdd72b22107ec5de00d90cc4797796 ]

Since -Warray-bounds checks the destination size from the type of given
pointer, __assign_rel_str() macro gets warned because it passes the
pointer to the 'u32' field instead of 'trace_event_raw_*' data structure.
Pass the data address calculated from the 'trace_event_raw_*' instead of
'u32' __rel_loc field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220125233154.dac280ed36944c0c2fe6f3ac@kernel.org

Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[ This did not fix the warning, but is still a nice clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add '__rel_loc' using trace event macros</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T12:24:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-22T09:30:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 55de2c0b5610cba5a5a93c0788031133c457e689 ]

Add '__rel_loc' using trace event macros. These macros are usually
not used in the kernel, except for testing purpose.
This also add "rel_" variant of macros for dynamic_array string,
and bitmask.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163757342119.510314.816029622439099016.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 55de2c0b5610cba5a5a93c0788031133c457e689 ]

Add '__rel_loc' using trace event macros. These macros are usually
not used in the kernel, except for testing purpose.
This also add "rel_" variant of macros for dynamic_array string,
and bitmask.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163757342119.510314.816029622439099016.stgit@devnote2

Cc: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add trace_event helper macros __string_len() and __assign_str_len()</title>
<updated>2021-08-17T15:47:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-17T00:55:10+00:00</published>
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There's a few cases that a string that is to be recorded in a trace event,
does not have a terminating 'nul' character, and instead, the tracepoint
passes in the length of the string to record.

Add two helper macros to the trace event code that lets this work easier,
than tricks with "%.*s" logic.

  __string_len() which is similar to __string() for declaration, but takes a
                 length argument.

  __assign_str_len() which is similar to __assign_str() for assiging the
                 string, but it too takes a length argument.

Note, the TRACE_EVENT() macro will allocate the location on the ring
buffer to 'len + 1', that will be used to store the string into. It is a
requirement that the 'len' used for this is a most the length of the
string being recorded.

This string can still use __get_str() just like strings created with
__string() can use to retrieve the string.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20210513105018.7539996a@gandalf.local.home/

Tested-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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There's a few cases that a string that is to be recorded in a trace event,
does not have a terminating 'nul' character, and instead, the tracepoint
passes in the length of the string to record.

Add two helper macros to the trace event code that lets this work easier,
than tricks with "%.*s" logic.

  __string_len() which is similar to __string() for declaration, but takes a
                 length argument.

  __assign_str_len() which is similar to __assign_str() for assiging the
                 string, but it too takes a length argument.

Note, the TRACE_EVENT() macro will allocate the location on the ring
buffer to 'len + 1', that will be used to store the string into. It is a
requirement that the 'len' used for this is a most the length of the
string being recorded.

This string can still use __get_str() just like strings created with
__string() can use to retrieve the string.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20210513105018.7539996a@gandalf.local.home/

Tested-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>trace: Add __print_ns_to_secs() and __print_ns_without_secs() helpers</title>
<updated>2021-06-25T22:26:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-22T14:42:26+00:00</published>
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To have nanosecond output displayed in a more human readable format, its
nicer to convert it to a seconds format (XXX.YYYYYYYYY). The problem is that
to do so, the numbers must be divided by NSEC_PER_SEC, and moded too. But as
these numbers are 64 bit, this can not be done simply with '/' and '%'
operators, but must use do_div() instead.

Instead of performing the expensive do_div() in the hot path of the
tracepoint, it is more efficient to perform it during the output phase. But
passing in do_div() can confuse the parser, and do_div() doesn't work
exactly like a normal C function. It modifies the number in place, and we
don't want to modify the actual values in the ring buffer.

Two helper functions are now created:

  __print_ns_to_secs() and __print_ns_without_secs()

They both take a value of nanoseconds, and the former will return that
number divided by NSEC_PER_SEC, and the latter will mod it with NSEC_PER_SEC
giving a way to print a nice human readable format:

 __print_fmt("time=%llu.%09u",
	__print_ns_to_secs(REC-&gt;nsec_val),
	__print_ns_without_secs(REC-&gt;nsec_val))

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e503b903045496c4ccde52843e1e318b422f7a56.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Carcia &lt;kcarcia@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Willaims &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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To have nanosecond output displayed in a more human readable format, its
nicer to convert it to a seconds format (XXX.YYYYYYYYY). The problem is that
to do so, the numbers must be divided by NSEC_PER_SEC, and moded too. But as
these numbers are 64 bit, this can not be done simply with '/' and '%'
operators, but must use do_div() instead.

Instead of performing the expensive do_div() in the hot path of the
tracepoint, it is more efficient to perform it during the output phase. But
passing in do_div() can confuse the parser, and do_div() doesn't work
exactly like a normal C function. It modifies the number in place, and we
don't want to modify the actual values in the ring buffer.

Two helper functions are now created:

  __print_ns_to_secs() and __print_ns_without_secs()

They both take a value of nanoseconds, and the former will return that
number divided by NSEC_PER_SEC, and the latter will mod it with NSEC_PER_SEC
giving a way to print a nice human readable format:

 __print_fmt("time=%llu.%09u",
	__print_ns_to_secs(REC-&gt;nsec_val),
	__print_ns_without_secs(REC-&gt;nsec_val))

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e503b903045496c4ccde52843e1e318b422f7a56.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Carcia &lt;kcarcia@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Chartre &lt;alexandre.chartre@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Willaims &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Update the stage 3 of trace event macro comment</title>
<updated>2021-02-11T21:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-15T14:55:16+00:00</published>
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Update the comment of the 3rd stage of trace event macro
expansion code. Now there are 2 macros makes different
trace_raw_output_&lt;call&gt;() functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160277371605.29307.8586817119278606720.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Update the comment of the 3rd stage of trace event macro
expansion code. Now there are 2 macros makes different
trace_raw_output_&lt;call&gt;() functions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160277371605.29307.8586817119278606720.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments</title>
<updated>2021-02-11T21:31:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-15T14:55:07+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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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 &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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