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Commit 8d3b7dce authored by Alexei Starovoitov's avatar Alexei Starovoitov Committed by David S. Miller
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bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk()



%s specifier makes bpf program and kernel debugging easier.
To make sure that trace_printk won't crash the unsafe string
is copied into stack and unsafe pointer is substituted.

The following C program:
 #include <linux/fs.h>
int foo(struct pt_regs *ctx, struct filename *filename)
{
  void *name = 0;

  bpf_probe_read(&name, sizeof(name), &filename->name);
  bpf_trace_printk("executed %s\n", name);
  return 0;
}

when attached to kprobe do_execve()
will produce output in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe :
    make-13492 [002] d..1  3250.997277: : executed /bin/sh
      sh-13493 [004] d..1  3250.998716: : executed /usr/bin/gcc
     gcc-13494 [002] d..1  3250.999822: : executed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/cc1
     gcc-13495 [002] d..1  3251.006731: : executed /usr/bin/as
     gcc-13496 [002] d..1  3251.011831: : executed /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/collect2
collect2-13497 [000] d..1  3251.012941: : executed /usr/bin/ld

Suggested-by: default avatarBrendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 1a6877b9
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