From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" If a field is a dynamic string, get_field_str() returned just the offset/size value and not the string. Have it parse the offset/size correctly to return the actual string. Otherwise filtering fails when trying to filter fields that are dynamic strings. Reported-by: gopanapalli pradeep Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c index 2b9048f90bae..431e8b309f6e 100644 --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/parse-filter.c @@ -1877,17 +1877,25 @@ static const char *get_field_str(struct filter_arg *arg, struct pevent_record *r struct pevent *pevent; unsigned long long addr; const char *val = NULL; + unsigned int size; char hex[64]; /* If the field is not a string convert it */ if (arg->str.field->flags & FIELD_IS_STRING) { val = record->data + arg->str.field->offset; + size = arg->str.field->size; + + if (arg->str.field->flags & FIELD_IS_DYNAMIC) { + addr = *(unsigned int *)val; + val = record->data + (addr & 0xffff); + size = addr >> 16; + } /* * We need to copy the data since we can't be sure the field * is null terminated. */ - if (*(val + arg->str.field->size - 1)) { + if (*(val + size - 1)) { /* copy it */ memcpy(arg->str.buffer, val, arg->str.field->size); /* the buffer is already NULL terminated */ -- 2.13.2