[for-linus][PATCH 08/15] tracing: Change synthetic event string format to limit printed length

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 06 2020 - 10:35:58 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Change the format for printing synthetic field strings to limit the
length of the string printed even if it's not correctly terminated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002210036.0200371b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6bdb34e70d970e8026daa3503db6b8e5cdad524.1601848695.git.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index 24bc6d61aa40..742ce5f62d6d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ static const char *synth_field_fmt(char *type)
else if (strcmp(type, "gfp_t") == 0)
fmt = "%x";
else if (synth_field_is_string(type))
- fmt = "%s";
+ fmt = "%.*s";

return fmt;
}
@@ -303,11 +303,13 @@ static enum print_line_t print_synth_event(struct trace_iterator *iter,
str_field = (char *)entry + data_offset;

trace_seq_printf(s, print_fmt, se->fields[i]->name,
+ STR_VAR_LEN_MAX,
str_field,
i == se->n_fields - 1 ? "" : " ");
n_u64++;
} else {
trace_seq_printf(s, print_fmt, se->fields[i]->name,
+ STR_VAR_LEN_MAX,
(char *)&entry->fields[n_u64],
i == se->n_fields - 1 ? "" : " ");
n_u64 += STR_VAR_LEN_MAX / sizeof(u64);
--
2.28.0