[for-linus][PATCH 09/12] tracing: Fix alignment of static buffer

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 11:01:30 EST


From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>

With 5.9 kernel on ARM64, I found ftrace_dump output was broken but
it had no problem with normal output "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace".

With investigation, it seems coping the data into temporal buffer seems to
break the align binary printf expects if the static buffer is not aligned
with 4-byte. IIUC, get_arg in bstr_printf expects that args has already
right align to be decoded and seq_buf_bprintf says ``the arguments are saved
in a 32bit word array that is defined by the format string constraints``.
So if we don't keep the align under copy to temporal buffer, the output
will be broken by shifting some bytes.

This patch fixes it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125225654.1618966-1-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx

Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 8e99cf91b99bb ("tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 410cfeb16db5..7d53c5bdea3e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3534,7 +3534,7 @@ __find_next_entry(struct trace_iterator *iter, int *ent_cpu,
}

#define STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE 128
-static char static_temp_buf[STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE];
+static char static_temp_buf[STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE] __aligned(4);

/* Find the next real entry, without updating the iterator itself */
struct trace_entry *trace_find_next_entry(struct trace_iterator *iter,
--
2.28.0