From: Steven Rostedt The events exported by TRACE_EVENT are automated and are guaranteed to be correct when used. The internal ftrace sturctures on the other hand are more manually exported. These require the ftrace maintainer to make sure they are up to date. This patch adds a size check to help flag when a type changes in an internal ftrace data structure, and the update needs to be reflected in the export. If a export is incorrect, then the only harm is that the user space tools will not know how to correctly read the internal structures of ftrace. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 3 +++ kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index d0f9968..4a1c1bc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -341,8 +341,11 @@ event_enable_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, return cnt; } +extern char *__bad_type_size(void); + #undef FIELD #define FIELD(type, name) \ + sizeof(type) != sizeof(field.name) ? __bad_type_size() : \ #type, #name, offsetof(typeof(field), name), sizeof(field.name) static int trace_write_header(struct trace_seq *s) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c index 4d9952d..4ae01bc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c @@ -19,8 +19,12 @@ #undef TRACE_STRUCT #define TRACE_STRUCT(args...) args +extern void __bad_type_size(void); + #undef TRACE_FIELD #define TRACE_FIELD(type, item, assign) \ + if (sizeof(type) != sizeof(field.item)) \ + __bad_type_size(); \ ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "\tfield:" #type " " #item ";\t" \ "offset:%u;\tsize:%u;\n", \ (unsigned int)offsetof(typeof(field), item), \ -- 1.6.2 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/