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    tracing/kprobes: Have uname use __get_str() in print_fmt · 20279420
    Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
    Thomas Richter reported:
    
    > Test case 66 'Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames'
    > is broken on s390, but works on x86. The test case fails with:
    >
    >  [root@m35lp76 perf]# perf test -F 66
    >  66: Use vfs_getname probe to get syscall args filenames
    >            :Recording open file:
    >  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
    >  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.004 MB /tmp/__perf_test.perf.data.TCdYj\
    > 	 (20 samples) ]
    >  Looking at perf.data file for vfs_getname records for the file we touched:
    >   FAILED!
    >   [root@m35lp76 perf]#
    
    The root cause was the print_fmt of the kprobe event that referenced the
    "ustring"
    
    > Setting up the kprobe event using perf command:
    >
    >  # ./perf probe "vfs_getname=getname_flags:72 pathname=filename:ustring"
    >
    > generates this format file:
    >   [root@m35lp76 perf]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/probe/\
    > 	  vfs_getname/format
    >   name: vfs_getname
    >   ID: 1172
    >   format:
    >     field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
    >     field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
    >     field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
    >     field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
    >
    >     field:unsigned long __probe_ip; offset:8; size:8; signed:0;
    >     field:__data_loc char[] pathname; offset:16; size:4; signed:1;
    >
    >     print fmt: "(%lx) pathname=\"%s\"", REC->__probe_ip, REC->pathname
    
    Instead of using "__get_str(pathname)" it referenced it directly.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200124100742.4050c15e@gandalf.local.home
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Fixes: 88903c46 ("tracing/probe: Add ustring type for user-space string")
    Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarThomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarThomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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