From: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org

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

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241218141507.28389a1d@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 07714b4bb3f98 ("tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

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); }