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tracing: Check for printable characters when printing field dyn strings
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:11:26 +0000 (19:11 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:10:59 +0000 (20:10 -0400)
commitb6e5d971fc5cf35cb64eceb2b43dbd5e4572d640
treecdfca96d67ff20c005780f5db2b7c0669236717b
parent64b627c8da9ab8ce9700ba8cba844907abd1f55a
tracing: Check for printable characters when printing field dyn strings

When the "fields" option is enabled, it prints each trace event field
based on its type. But a dynamic array and a dynamic string can both have
a "char *" type. Printing it as a string can cause escape characters to be
printed and mess up the output of the trace.

For dynamic strings, test if there are any non-printable characters, and
if so, print both the string with the non printable characters as '.', and
the print the hex value of the array.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.929243047@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/trace_output.c