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[Bug tapsets/18263] New: In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: "maxvt at bu dot edu" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:35:24 +0000
- Subject: [Bug tapsets/18263] New: In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18263
Bug ID: 18263
Summary: In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a
script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
Product: systemtap
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: tapsets
Assignee: systemtap at sourceware dot org
Reporter: maxvt at bu dot edu
Seeing this error from my script:
ERROR: kernel string copy fault at 0x (null) [man error::fault] near
identifier 'kernel_string' at
/usr/share/systemtap/tapset/linux/conversions.stp:18:10
Narrowed down to a tty.write tap. Investigating the parameters by patching the
tapset like this:
probe tty.write = kernel.function("n_tty_write") !,
kernel.function("write_chan")
{
// [mt]
printf("buf=%p tty=%p\n", $buf, $tty)
printf("ttydr=%p ttydrn=%p\n", $tty->driver, $tty->driver->driver_name)
I saw this:
buf=0xcf36c800 tty=0xcd358200
ttydr=0xcf952b80 ttydrn=0x0
I'm not sure which driver(s) may be causing this, and if this might be Debian
specific.
Script-termination-causing line:
driver_name = kernel_string($tty->driver->driver_name)
Suggested fix:
if ($tty->driver->driver_name)
driver_name = kernel_string($tty->driver->driver_name)
else
driver_name = "(none)"
System details:
> uname -a
Linux woot 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) i686
GNU/Linux
> stap -V
Systemtap translator/driver (version 2.6/0.159, Debian version 2.6-0.2)
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- Follow-Ups:
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: dsmith at redhat dot com
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: dsmith at redhat dot com
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: dsmith at redhat dot com
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: dsmith at redhat dot com
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: maxvt at bu dot edu
- [Bug tapsets/18263] In tty tapset, driver_name can be null, causing a script to fail when probing tty.write or tty.read
- From: dsmith at redhat dot com