[for-next][PATCH 24/25] tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Mar 29 2023 - 15:46:57 EST


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

Currently, user events are shown using the "hex" output for "safety"
reasons as one cannot trust user events behaving nicely. But the hex
output is not the only utility for safe outputting of trace events. The
print_event_fields() is just as safe and gives user readable output.

Before:
example-839 [001] ..... 43.222244:
00000000: b1 06 00 00 47 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....G.......
example-839 [001] ..... 43.564433:
00000000: b1 06 00 00 47 03 00 00 01 00 00 00 ....G.......
example-839 [001] ..... 43.763917:
00000000: b1 06 00 00 47 03 00 00 02 00 00 00 ....G.......
example-839 [001] ..... 43.967929:
00000000: b1 06 00 00 47 03 00 00 03 00 00 00 ....G.......

After:

example-837 [006] ..... 55.739249: test: count=0x0 (0)
example-837 [006] ..... 111.104784: test: count=0x1 (1)
example-837 [006] ..... 111.268444: test: count=0x2 (2)
example-837 [006] ..... 111.416533: test: count=0x3 (3)
example-837 [006] ..... 111.542859: test: count=0x4 (4)

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230328151413.4770b8d7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
index 67cb7b53caf6..cc8c6d8b69b5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/user_events.h>
-#include "trace.h"
#include "trace_dynevent.h"
+#include "trace_output.h"
+#include "trace.h"

#define USER_EVENTS_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof(USER_EVENTS_PREFIX)-1)

@@ -1198,11 +1199,7 @@ static enum print_line_t user_event_print_trace(struct trace_iterator *iter,
int flags,
struct trace_event *event)
{
- /* Unsafe to try to decode user provided print_fmt, use hex */
- trace_print_hex_dump_seq(&iter->seq, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16,
- 1, iter->ent, iter->ent_size, true);
-
- return trace_handle_return(&iter->seq);
+ return print_event_fields(iter, event);
}

static struct trace_event_functions user_event_funcs = {
--
2.39.1