[DTrace-devel] [PATCH v4] trace: print alloca pointers as actual pointer values
Kris Van Hees
kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Tue Sep 16 18:26:45 UTC 2025
Because alloca pointers are stored internally as offsets 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 | 46 ++++++++++++++++------
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, 71 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 7d542521..1f120e1d 100644
--- a/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
+++ b/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
@@ -1687,18 +1687,42 @@ 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_flags & DT_NF_REF) &&
+ (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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