Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] tracepoints: tree-wide: Replace %p with %px

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:59:19 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To help debugging kernel, use %px to show real addresses on
> tracefs/trace file.
> 
> Since ftrace human-readable format uses vsprintf(), all %p are
> translated to hash values instead of pointer address.
> 
> However, when debugging the kernel, raw address value gives a
> hint when comparing with the memory mapping in the kernel.
> (Those are sometimes used with crash log, which is not hashed too)
> 
> Moreover, this is not improving the security because the tracefs
> can be used only by root user and the raw address values are readable
> from tracefs/percpu/cpu*/trace_pipe_raw file.
> 
> Note that this has been done by the following script.
> 
>  #!/bin/sh
>  tmp=`mktemp`
>  for h in include/trace/events/*.h ; do
>    sed -e 's/\(%p\)\([^a-zA-Z]\)/\1x\2/g' $h > $tmp
>    cp $tmp $h
>  done
>  rm $tmp
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Masami,

I think a better approach is to inject on the output side a conversion of
"%p" to "%px" before printing. That is, in the trace_raw_output_##call()
function, instead of calling trace_seq_printf(s, print), we call a new
function trace_event_printf(s, print), that will take the fmt parameter,
and copies it to something that does your 's/\(%p\)\([^a-zA-Z]\)/\1x\2/g'
inline before passing it off to trace_seq_printf().

-- Steve