tracing: Have event format check not flag %p* on __get_dynamic_array()
authorSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 7 Apr 2022 18:56:32 +0000 (14:56 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:25:29 +0000 (17:25 +0200)
commit6107b014163f04252ced73e8171139ab9c8b7804
tree5c77ef281802b4869d40251fc238547700ec7a73
parent621c1d8c1bd118fae7f723b3fa3830b76435be2f
tracing: Have event format check not flag %p* on __get_dynamic_array()

[ Upstream commit 499f12168aebd6da8fa32c9b7d6203ca9b5eb88d ]

The print fmt check against trace events to make sure that the format does
not use pointers that may be freed from the time of the trace to the time
the event is read, gives a false positive on %pISpc when reading data that
was saved in __get_dynamic_array() when it is perfectly fine to do so, as
the data being read is on the ring buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220407144524.2a592ed6@canb.auug.org.au/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5013f454a352c ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/trace/trace_events.c