Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on
string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we
show incorrect info.
The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol
from jffs2. In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere
because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'.
In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because
everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to
utf8. But it's better to be extra safe here. It's worth noting that
this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are
replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back
to ascii.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In some cases it is possible for the str() conversion here to throw
encoding errors because log_buf might not point to valid ascii. For
example:
(gdb) python print str(gdb.parse_and_eval("log_buf"))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in
position 24: ordinal not in range(128)
Avoid this by explicitly casting to (void *) inside the gdb expression.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6f85dbb02ca980ebd0e2399b0649423399b565.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kieran@ksquared.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lx-dmesg needs access to the log_buf symbol from printk.c.
Unfortunately, the symbol log_buf also exists in BPF's verifier.c and
hence gdb can pick one or the other. If it happens to pick BPF's
log_buf, lx-dmesg doesn't work:
(gdb) lx-dmesg
Python Exception <class 'gdb.MemoryError'> Cannot access memory at address 0x0:
Error occurred in Python command: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(gdb) p log_buf
$15 = 0x0
Luckily, GDB has a way to deal with this, see
https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols.html
(gdb) info variables ^log_buf$
All variables matching regular expression "^log_buf$":
File <linux.git>/kernel/bpf/verifier.c:
static char *log_buf;
File <linux.git>/kernel/printk/printk.c:
static char *log_buf;
(gdb) p 'verifier.c'::log_buf
$1 = 0x0
(gdb) p 'printk.c'::log_buf
$2 = 0x811a6aa0 <__log_buf> ""
(gdb) p &log_buf
$3 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf>
(gdb) p &'verifier.c'::log_buf
$4 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 <log_buf>
(gdb) p &'printk.c'::log_buf
$5 = (char **) 0x8048b7d0 <log_buf>
By being explicit about the location of the symbol, we can make lx-dmesg
work again. While at it, do the same for the other symbols we need from
printk.c
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526112222.3414-1-git@andred.net
Signed-off-by: André Draszik <git@andred.net>
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The recent fixes to lx-dmesg, now allow the command to print
successfully on Python3, however the python interpreter wraps the bytes
for each line with a b'<text>' marker.
To remove this, we need to decode the line, where .decode() will default
to 'UTF-8'
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d67ccf93f2479c94cb3399262b9b796e0dbefcf2.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Acked-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When built against Python 3, GDB differs in the return type for its
read_memory function, causing the lx-dmesg command to fail.
Now that we have an improved read_16() we can use the new
read_memoryview() abstraction to make lx-dmesg return valid data on both
current Python APIs
Tested with python 3.4 and 2.7
Tested with gdb 7.7
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/28477b727ff7fe3101fd4e426060e8a68317a639.1462865983.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com
Signed-off-by: Dom Cote <buzdelabuz2+git@gmail.com>
[kieran@bingham.xyz: Adjusted commit log to better reflect code changes]
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz> (Py2.7,Py3.4,GDB10)
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran@bingham.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I tried to use these scripts in an ubuntu 14.04 host (gdb 7.7 compiled
against python 3.3) but there were several errors.
I believe this patch fixes these issues so that the commands now work (I
tested lx-symbols, lx-dmesg, lx-lsmod).
Main issues that needed to be resolved:
* In python 2 iterators have a "next()" method. In python 3 it is
__next__() instead (so let's just add both).
* In older python versions there was an implicit conversion
in object.__format__() (used when an object is in string.format())
where it was converting the object to str first and then
calling str's __format__(). This has now been removed so
we must explicitly convert to str the objects for which
we need to keep this behavior.
* In dmesg.py: in python 3 log_buf is now a "memoryview" object
which needs to be converted to a string in order to use string
methods like "splitlines()". Luckily memoryview exists in
python 2.7.6 as well, so we can convert log_buf to memoryview
and use the same code in both python 2 and python 3.
This version of the patch has now been tested with gdb 7.7 and both python
3.4 and python 2.7.6 (I think asking for at least python 2.7.6 is a
reasonable requirement instead of complicating the code with version
checks etc).
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This pokes into the log buffer of the debugged kernel, dumping it to the
gdb console. Helping in case the target should or can no longer execute
dmesg itself.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
