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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-06 12:37:28 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-02-06 12:37:28 -0800
commitbab849a908496a593af61a9832eea26f1ec3e279 (patch)
tree355b54fa8bb9a7b3d07d0b3c4b6ab6e7474f681f /kernel
parent240b8d8227468344e814c6bc7eb8ae532e3b8a09 (diff)
parent033c55fe2e326bea022c3cc5178ecf3e0e459b82 (diff)
Merge tag 'trace-v6.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt: - Fix event format field alignments for 32 bit architectures The fields in the event format files are used to parse the raw binary buffer data by applications. If they are incorrect, then the application produces garbage. On 32 bit architectures, the function graph 64bit calltime and rettime were off by 4bytes. That's because the actual fields are in a packed structure but the macros used by the ftrace events did not mark them as packed, and instead, gave them their natural alignment which made their offsets off by 4 bytes. There are macros to have a packed field within an embedded structure of an event, but there's no macro for normal fields within a packed structure of the event. The macro __field_packed() was used for the packed embedded structure field. Rename that to __field_desc_packed() (to match the non-packed embedded field macro __field_desc()), and make __field_packed() for fields that are in a packed event structure (which matches the unpacked __field() macro). Switch the calltime and rettime fields of the function graph event to use the new __field_packed() and this makes the offsets correct. * tag 'trace-v6.19-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignments
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.h7
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_entries.h32
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_export.c21
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index b6d42fe06115..c11edec5d8f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -68,14 +68,17 @@ enum trace_type {
#undef __field_fn
#define __field_fn(type, item) type item;
+#undef __field_packed
+#define __field_packed(type, item) type item;
+
#undef __field_struct
#define __field_struct(type, item) __field(type, item)
#undef __field_desc
#define __field_desc(type, container, item)
-#undef __field_packed
-#define __field_packed(type, container, item)
+#undef __field_desc_packed
+#define __field_desc_packed(type, container, item)
#undef __array
#define __array(type, item, size) type item[size];
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_entries.h b/kernel/trace/trace_entries.h
index f6a8d29c0d76..54417468fdeb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_entries.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_entries.h
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ FTRACE_ENTRY(funcgraph_entry, ftrace_graph_ent_entry,
F_STRUCT(
__field_struct( struct ftrace_graph_ent, graph_ent )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, graph_ent, func )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, graph_ent, depth )
+ __field_desc_packed(unsigned long, graph_ent, func )
+ __field_desc_packed(unsigned long, graph_ent, depth )
__dynamic_array(unsigned long, args )
),
@@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ FTRACE_ENTRY_PACKED(fgraph_retaddr_entry, fgraph_retaddr_ent_entry,
F_STRUCT(
__field_struct( struct fgraph_retaddr_ent, graph_rent )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent.ent, func )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent.ent, depth )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent, retaddr )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent.ent, func )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent.ent, depth )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, graph_rent, retaddr )
__dynamic_array(unsigned long, args )
),
@@ -123,12 +123,12 @@ FTRACE_ENTRY_PACKED(funcgraph_exit, ftrace_graph_ret_entry,
F_STRUCT(
__field_struct( struct ftrace_graph_ret, ret )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, ret, func )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, ret, retval )
- __field_packed( unsigned int, ret, depth )
- __field_packed( unsigned int, ret, overrun )
- __field(unsigned long long, calltime )
- __field(unsigned long long, rettime )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, ret, func )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, ret, retval )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned int, ret, depth )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned int, ret, overrun )
+ __field_packed(unsigned long long, calltime)
+ __field_packed(unsigned long long, rettime )
),
F_printk("<-- %ps (%u) (start: %llx end: %llx) over: %u retval: %lx",
@@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ FTRACE_ENTRY_PACKED(funcgraph_exit, ftrace_graph_ret_entry,
F_STRUCT(
__field_struct( struct ftrace_graph_ret, ret )
- __field_packed( unsigned long, ret, func )
- __field_packed( unsigned int, ret, depth )
- __field_packed( unsigned int, ret, overrun )
- __field(unsigned long long, calltime )
- __field(unsigned long long, rettime )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned long, ret, func )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned int, ret, depth )
+ __field_desc_packed( unsigned int, ret, overrun )
+ __field_packed(unsigned long long, calltime )
+ __field_packed(unsigned long long, rettime )
),
F_printk("<-- %ps (%u) (start: %llx end: %llx) over: %u",
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
index 1698fc22afa0..32a42ef31855 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
@@ -42,11 +42,14 @@ static int ftrace_event_register(struct trace_event_call *call,
#undef __field_fn
#define __field_fn(type, item) type item;
+#undef __field_packed
+#define __field_packed(type, item) type item;
+
#undef __field_desc
#define __field_desc(type, container, item) type item;
-#undef __field_packed
-#define __field_packed(type, container, item) type item;
+#undef __field_desc_packed
+#define __field_desc_packed(type, container, item) type item;
#undef __array
#define __array(type, item, size) type item[size];
@@ -104,11 +107,14 @@ static void __always_unused ____ftrace_check_##name(void) \
#undef __field_fn
#define __field_fn(_type, _item) __field_ext(_type, _item, FILTER_TRACE_FN)
+#undef __field_packed
+#define __field_packed(_type, _item) __field_ext_packed(_type, _item, FILTER_OTHER)
+
#undef __field_desc
#define __field_desc(_type, _container, _item) __field_ext(_type, _item, FILTER_OTHER)
-#undef __field_packed
-#define __field_packed(_type, _container, _item) __field_ext_packed(_type, _item, FILTER_OTHER)
+#undef __field_desc_packed
+#define __field_desc_packed(_type, _container, _item) __field_ext_packed(_type, _item, FILTER_OTHER)
#undef __array
#define __array(_type, _item, _len) { \
@@ -146,11 +152,14 @@ static struct trace_event_fields ftrace_event_fields_##name[] = { \
#undef __field_fn
#define __field_fn(type, item)
+#undef __field_packed
+#define __field_packed(type, item)
+
#undef __field_desc
#define __field_desc(type, container, item)
-#undef __field_packed
-#define __field_packed(type, container, item)
+#undef __field_desc_packed
+#define __field_desc_packed(type, container, item)
#undef __array
#define __array(type, item, len)