Working on the histogram code, I found that if you dereference a char
pointer in a trace event that happens to point to user space, it can crash
the kernel, as it does no checks of that pointer. I have code coming that
will do this better, so just remove this ability to treat character
pointers in trace events as stings in the histogram.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.14-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Fix the histogram logic from possibly crashing the kernel
Working on the histogram code, I found that if you dereference a char
pointer in a trace event that happens to point to user space, it can
crash the kernel, as it does no checks of that pointer. I have code
coming that will do this better, so just remove this ability to treat
character pointers in trace events as stings in the histogram"
* tag 'trace-v5.14-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Do not reference char * as a string in histograms
3fdacf402b