[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v3] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values

Kris Van Hees kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Mon Sep 15 17:36:51 UTC 2025


Because alloca pointers are stored internally as ofssets into the
scratchmem area, they were printed as small integers.  They are
now printed as actual pointer values into kernel space.

Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
---
 libdtrace/dt_cg.c                          | 45 ++++++++++++++++------
 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.d   | 24 ++++++++++++
 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r   |  1 +
 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r.p | 11 ++++++
 4 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.d
 create mode 100644 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r
 create mode 100755 test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r.p

diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_cg.c b/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
index 78f29a2a..c976782b 100644
--- a/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
+++ b/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
@@ -1687,18 +1687,41 @@ dt_cg_store_val(dt_pcb_t *pcb, dt_node_t *dnp, dtrace_actkind_t kind,
 		align = vtype.dtdt_align;
 
 		/*
-		 * A DEREF of a REF node does not get resolved in dt_cg_node()
-		 * because the ref node already holds the pointer.  But for
-		 * alloca pointers, that will be the offset into scratchmem so
-		 * we still need to turn it into a real pointer here.
+		 * Alloca pointers are stored as an offset into scratchmem, so
+		 * they need to be converted into real pointers before we go on.
+		 * An alloca pointer value either has the ALLOCA flag set, or
+		 * the value node is a DEREF of an alloca pointer child.
+		 * If the alloca pointer is a REF or ref-by-value is requested,
+		 * we need to do bounds checking before turning the alloca
+		 * pointer into a real pointer.
+		 * If not, we should scalarize it so that the BPF verifier does
+		 * not complain.
 		 */
-		if (dnp->dn_kind == DT_NODE_OP1 &&
-		    dnp->dn_op == DT_TOK_DEREF && (dnp->dn_flags & DT_NF_REF) &&
-		    (dnp->dn_child->dn_flags & DT_NF_ALLOCA)) {
-			dt_cg_alloca_access_check(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_reg,
-						  DT_ISIMM, size);
-			dt_cg_alloca_ptr(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_reg, dnp->dn_reg);
-			not_null = 1;
+		if ((dnp->dn_flags & DT_NF_ALLOCA) ||
+		    (dnp->dn_kind == DT_NODE_OP1 &&
+		     dnp->dn_op == DT_TOK_DEREF &&
+		     dnp->dn_child->dn_flags & DT_NF_ALLOCA)) {
+			if ((dnp->dn_flags & DT_NF_REF) || (arg & DT_NF_REF)) {
+				dt_cg_alloca_access_check(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_reg,
+							  DT_ISIMM, size);
+
+				dt_cg_alloca_ptr(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_reg, dnp->dn_reg);
+				not_null = 1;
+			} else {
+				int	reg;
+
+				dt_regset_xalloc(drp, BPF_REG_0);
+				emit(dlp,  BPF_LOAD(BPF_DW, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_FP, DT_STK_DCTX));
+				if ((reg = dt_regset_alloc(drp)) == -1)
+					longjmp(yypcb->pcb_jmpbuf, EDT_NOREG);
+				emit(dlp, BPF_LOAD(BPF_DW, reg, BPF_REG_0, DCTX_SCRATCHMEM));
+				emit(dlp, BPF_LOAD(BPF_DW, BPF_REG_0, BPF_REG_0, DCTX_MST));
+				emit(dlp, BPF_STORE(BPF_DW, BPF_REG_0, DMST_SCALARIZER, reg));
+				emit(dlp, BPF_LOAD(BPF_DW, reg, BPF_REG_0, DMST_SCALARIZER));
+				dt_regset_free(drp, BPF_REG_0);
+				emit(dlp,  BPF_ALU64_REG(BPF_ADD, dnp->dn_reg, reg));
+				dt_regset_free(drp, reg);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.d b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2ff5152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.d
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#pragma D option quiet
+
+BEGIN
+{
+	arr = (int *)alloca(5 * sizeof(int));
+	idx = 4;
+	arr[0] = 1;
+	arr[1] = 22;
+	arr[2] = 333;
+	arr[3] = 4444;
+	arr[4] = 55555;
+	trace(arr);
+	trace(" ");
+	trace(*arr);
+	trace(" ");
+	trace(arr + 2);
+	trace(" ");
+	trace(*(arr + 2));
+	trace(" ");
+	trace(arr + idx);
+	trace(" ");
+	trace(*(arr + idx));
+	exit(0);
+}
diff --git a/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9bbf2f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+OK 1 OK 333 OK 55555
diff --git a/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r.p b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r.p
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..8515861a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unittest/actions/trace/tst.alloca.r.p
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/gawk -f
+
+{
+	$1 = $1 > 0x7fffffff ? "OK" : "BAD";
+	$3 = $3 > 0x7fffffff ? "OK" : "BAD";
+	$5 = $5 > 0x7fffffff ? "OK" : "BAD";
+}
+
+{
+	print;
+}
-- 
2.43.5




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