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tools lib traceevent: Check string is really printable
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When libtraceevent parses format fields, it assumes that array of 1 byte
is string but it's not always true. The kvm_emulate_insn contains 15 u8
array of insn that contains (binary) instructions. Thus when it's
printed, it'll have broken output like below:

  kvm_emulate_insn:     [FAILED TO PARSE] rip=3238197797 csbase=0 len=2 \
  insn=<89>P^]<B4>& flags=5 failed=0

With this patch:

  kvm_emulate_insn:     [FAILED TO PARSE] rip=3238197797 csbase=0 len=2 \
  insn=ARRAY[89, 10, 5d, c3, 8d, b4, 26, 00, 00, 00, 00, 55, 89, e5, 3e] flags=5 failed=0

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340352615-20737-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Namhyung Kim authored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo committed Jun 29, 2012
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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
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Expand Up @@ -3589,6 +3589,16 @@ static void print_mac_arg(struct trace_seq *s, int mac, void *data, int size,
trace_seq_printf(s, fmt, buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3], buf[4], buf[5]);
}

static int is_printable_array(char *p, unsigned int len)
{
unsigned int i;

for (i = 0; i < len && p[i]; i++)
if (!isprint(p[i]))
return 0;
return 1;
}

static void print_event_fields(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, int size,
struct event_format *event)
{
Expand All @@ -3608,7 +3618,8 @@ static void print_event_fields(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, int size,
len = offset >> 16;
offset &= 0xffff;
}
if (field->flags & FIELD_IS_STRING) {
if (field->flags & FIELD_IS_STRING &&
is_printable_array(data + offset, len)) {
trace_seq_printf(s, "%s", (char *)data + offset);
} else {
trace_seq_puts(s, "ARRAY[");
Expand All @@ -3619,6 +3630,7 @@ static void print_event_fields(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, int size,
*((unsigned char *)data + offset + i));
}
trace_seq_putc(s, ']');
field->flags &= ~FIELD_IS_STRING;
}
} else {
val = pevent_read_number(event->pevent, data + field->offset,
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