Re: [PATCH] tools/lib/traceevent: Fix processing of dereferenced args in bprintk events

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Dec 10 2018 - 16:26:26 EST


On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:48:07 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 01:45:22PM -0500, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> > From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > In the case that a bprintk event has a dereferenced pointer that is stored
> > as a string, and there's more values to process (more args), the arg was not
> > updated to point to the next arg after processing the dereferenced pointer,
> > and it screwed up what was to be displayed.
>
> Thanks, applied.
>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: 7db96bb49629 ("tools lib traceevent: Handle new pointer processing of bprint strings")

Arnaldo,

It seems that I cut and pasted the sha1 of the "fixes" part wrong. Can
you add a "3". That is, the above should have been: 37db96bb49629

Thanks,

-- Steve

>
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > index 3692f29fee46..70144b98141c 100644
> > --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
> > @@ -4970,6 +4970,7 @@ static void pretty_print(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, int size, struct tep_e
> >
> > if (arg->type == TEP_PRINT_BSTRING) {
> > trace_seq_puts(s, arg->string.string);
> > + arg = arg->next;
> > break;
> > }
> >
> > --
> > 2.19.1
>