[PATCH v2 3/6] tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields

[Steven Rostedt]

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

Currently when an event probe (eprobe) hooks to a string field, it does
not display it as a string, but instead as a number. This makes the field
rather useless. Handle the different kinds of strings, dynamic, static,
relational/dynamic etc.

Now when a string field is used, the ":string" type can be used to display
it:

  echo "e:sw sched/sched_switch comm=$next_comm:string" > dynamic_events

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 7491e2c44278 ("tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
index 550671985fd1..a1d3423ab74f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c
@@ -311,6 +311,27 @@ static unsigned long get_event_field(struct fetch_insn *code, void *rec)
 
 	addr = rec + field->offset;
 
+	if (is_string_field(field)) {
+		switch (field->filter_type) {
+		case FILTER_DYN_STRING:
+			val = (unsigned long)(rec + (*(unsigned int *)addr & 0xffff));
+			break;
+		case FILTER_RDYN_STRING:
+			val = (unsigned long)(addr + (*(unsigned int *)addr & 0xffff));
+			break;
+		case FILTER_STATIC_STRING:
+			val = (unsigned long)addr;
+			break;
+		case FILTER_PTR_STRING:
+			val = (unsigned long)(*(char *)addr);
+			break;
+		default:
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+			return 0;
+		}
+		return val;
+	}
+
 	switch (field->size) {
 	case 1:
 		if (field->is_signed)
-- 
2.35.1