2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index afaae41b0a02..fe39acd4c1aa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@ extern struct list_head ftrace_events;
 extern const char *__start___trace_bprintk_fmt[];
 extern const char *__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt[];
 
+extern const char *__start___tracepoint_str[];
+extern const char *__stop___tracepoint_str[];
+
 void trace_printk_init_buffers(void);
 void trace_printk_start_comm(void);
 int trace_keep_overwrite(struct tracer *tracer, u32 mask, int set);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
index a9077c1b4ad3..2900817ba65c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_printk.c
@@ -244,12 +244,31 @@ static const char **find_next(void *v, loff_t *pos)
 {
         const char **fmt = v;
         int start_index;
+        int last_index;
 
         start_index = __stop___trace_bprintk_fmt - __start___trace_bprintk_fmt;
 
         if (*pos < start_index)
                 return __start___trace_bprintk_fmt + *pos;
 
+        /*
+         * The __tracepoint_str section is treated the same as the
+         * __trace_printk_fmt section. The difference is that the
+         * __trace_printk_fmt section should only be used by trace_printk()
+         * in a debugging environment, as if anything exists in that section
+         * the trace_prink() helper buffers are allocated, which would just
+         * waste space in a production environment.
+         *
+         * The __tracepoint_str sections on the other hand are used by
+         * tracepoints which need to map pointers to their strings to
+         * the ASCII text for userspace.
+         */
+        last_index = start_index;
+        start_index = __stop___tracepoint_str - __start___tracepoint_str;
+
+        if (*pos < last_index + start_index)
+                return __start___tracepoint_str + (*pos - last_index);
+
         return find_next_mod_format(start_index, v, fmt, pos);
 }