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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-10-28 19:11:23 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-10-28 20:10:59 -0400
commite77ad6da90aed0c76cfaff76012b07b9ee4edf44 (patch)
tree98ebe37b1454217b52cf6e58498c526b7fd08c05
parent299ea67e6a2b3d0d4b707f45b8c66d8b4bbbf2c6 (diff)
tracing: Show printable characters in syscall arrays
When displaying the contents of the user space data passed to the kernel, instead of just showing the array values, also print any printable content. Instead of just: bash-1113 [003] ..... 3433.290654: sys_write(fd: 2, buf: 0x555a8deeddb0 (72:6f:6f:74:40:64:65:62:69:61:6e:2d:78:38:36:2d:36:34:3a:7e:23:20), count: 0x16) Display: bash-1113 [003] ..... 3433.290654: sys_write(fd: 2, buf: 0x555a8deeddb0 (72:6f:6f:74:40:64:65:62:69:61:6e:2d:78:38:36:2d:36:34:3a:7e:23:20) "root@debian-x86-64:~# ", count: 0x16) This only affects tracing and does not affect perf, as this only updates the output from the kernel. The output from perf is via user space. This may change by an update to libtraceevent that will then update perf to have this as well. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.429422865@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index a2de6364777a..2d1307f13e13 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ print_syscall_enter(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags,
trace_seq_printf(s, "%s(", entry->name);
for (i = 0; i < entry->nb_args; i++) {
+ bool printable = false;
+ char *str;
if (trace_seq_has_overflowed(s))
goto end;
@@ -193,8 +195,11 @@ print_syscall_enter(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags,
val = trace->args[entry->user_arg_size];
+ str = ptr;
trace_seq_puts(s, " (");
for (int x = 0; x < len; x++, ptr++) {
+ if (isascii(*ptr) && isprint(*ptr))
+ printable = true;
if (x)
trace_seq_putc(s, ':');
trace_seq_printf(s, "%02x", *ptr);
@@ -203,6 +208,22 @@ print_syscall_enter(struct trace_iterator *iter, int flags,
trace_seq_printf(s, ", %s", EXTRA);
trace_seq_putc(s, ')');
+
+ /* If nothing is printable, don't bother printing anything */
+ if (!printable)
+ continue;
+
+ trace_seq_puts(s, " \"");
+ for (int x = 0; x < len; x++) {
+ if (isascii(str[x]) && isprint(str[x]))
+ trace_seq_putc(s, str[x]);
+ else
+ trace_seq_putc(s, '.');
+ }
+ if (len < val)
+ trace_seq_printf(s, "\"%s", EXTRA);
+ else
+ trace_seq_putc(s, '"');
}
trace_seq_putc(s, ')');