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tracing: Fix alignment of static buffer
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With 5.9 kernel on ARM64, I found ftrace_dump output was broken but
it had no problem with normal output "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace".

With investigation, it seems coping the data into temporal buffer seems to
break the align binary printf expects if the static buffer is not aligned
with 4-byte. IIUC, get_arg in bstr_printf expects that args has already
right align to be decoded and seq_buf_bprintf says ``the arguments are saved
in a 32bit word array that is defined by the format string constraints``.
So if we don't keep the align under copy to temporal buffer, the output
will be broken by shifting some bytes.

This patch fixes it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125225654.1618966-1-minchan@kernel.org

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 8e99cf9 ("tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Minchan Kim authored and Steven Rostedt (VMware) committed Dec 1, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -3534,7 +3534,7 @@ __find_next_entry(struct trace_iterator *iter, int *ent_cpu,
}

#define STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE 128
static char static_temp_buf[STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE];
static char static_temp_buf[STATIC_TEMP_BUF_SIZE] __aligned(4);

/* Find the next real entry, without updating the iterator itself */
struct trace_entry *trace_find_next_entry(struct trace_iterator *iter,
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