From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> The TP_printk() of a TRACE_EVENT() is a generic printf format that any developer can create for their event. It may include pointers to strings and such. A boot mapped buffer may contain data from a previous kernel where the strings addresses are different. One solution is to copy the event content and update the pointers by the recorded delta, but a simpler solution (for now) is to just use the print_fields() function to print these events. The print_fields() function just iterates the fields and prints them according to what type they are, and ignores the TP_printk() format from the event itself. To understand the difference, when printing via TP_printk() the output looks like this: 4582.696626: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=getname_flags+0x47/0x1f0 ptr=00000000e70e10e0 bytes_req=4096 bytes_alloc=4096 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=false 4582.696629: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=alloc_empty_file+0x6b/0x110 ptr=0000000095808002 bytes_req=360 bytes_alloc=384 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=false 4582.696630: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=security_file_alloc+0x24/0x100 ptr=00000000576339c3 bytes_req=16 bytes_alloc=16 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO node=-1 accounted=false 4582.696653: kmem_cache_free: call_site=do_sys_openat2+0xa7/0xd0 ptr=00000000e70e10e0 name=names_cache But when printing via print_fields() (echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/options/fields) the same event output looks like this: 4582.696626: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92d10d97 (-1831793257) ptr=0xffff9e0e8571e000 (-107689771147264) bytes_req=0x1000 (4096) bytes_alloc=0x1000 (4096) gfp_flags=0xcc0 (3264) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0) 4582.696629: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92d0250b (-1831852789) ptr=0xffff9e0e8577f800 (-107689770747904) bytes_req=0x168 (360) bytes_alloc=0x180 (384) gfp_flags=0xcc0 (3264) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0) 4582.696630: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92efca74 (-1829778828) ptr=0xffff9e0e8d35d3b0 (-107689640864848) bytes_req=0x10 (16) bytes_alloc=0x10 (16) gfp_flags=0xdc0 (3520) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0) 4582.696653: kmem_cache_free: call_site=0xffffffff92cfbea7 (-1831879001) ptr=0xffff9e0e8571e000 (-107689771147264) name=names_cache The print_fields() needed one update to handle this, and that's to add the delta to the pointer strings. It also needs to handle %pS, but that is out of scope of this fix. Currently, it only prints the raw address. Ftrace events like stack trace and function tracing have their own methods to print and already can handle the deltas. Those event types are less than __TRACE_LAST_TYPE. If the event type is greater than that, then the print_fields() output is forced. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 07714b4bb3f98 ("tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 +++++++++ kernel/trace/trace_output.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index be62f0ea1814..6581cb2bc67f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4353,6 +4353,15 @@ static enum print_line_t print_trace_fmt(struct trace_iterator *iter) if (event) { if (tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_FIELDS) return print_event_fields(iter, event); + /* + * For TRACE_EVENT() events, the print_fmt is not + * safe to use if the array has delta offsets + * Force printing via the fields. + */ + if ((tr->text_delta || tr->data_delta) && + event->type > __TRACE_LAST_TYPE) + return print_event_fields(iter, event); + return event->funcs->trace(iter, sym_flags, event); } diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c index da748b7cbc4d..0a5d12dd860f 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c @@ -853,6 +853,7 @@ static void print_fields(struct trace_iterator *iter, struct trace_event_call *c struct list_head *head) { struct ftrace_event_field *field; + long delta = iter->tr->text_delta; int offset; int len; int ret; @@ -889,7 +890,7 @@ static void print_fields(struct trace_iterator *iter, struct trace_event_call *c case FILTER_PTR_STRING: if (!iter->fmt_size) trace_iter_expand_format(iter); - pos = *(void **)pos; + pos = (*(void **)pos) + delta; ret = strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(iter->fmt, pos, iter->fmt_size); if (ret < 0) -- 2.45.2