tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:55:07 +0000 (23:55 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 21:31:57 +0000 (16:31 -0500)
commitefbbdaa22bb78761bff8dfdde027ad04bedd47ce
tree71624da3d658aefa36ec8b02e153e0a727cee735
parent7d5367539ae902a9208c5918e21b0f89e5feb29c
tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments

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 <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
include/linux/trace_events.h
include/trace/trace_events.h
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace.h
kernel/trace/trace_output.c