scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: cast log_buf to void* for addr fetch

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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wessel <[email protected]>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
index 5afd1098e33a173a18b2310aa24d205534df711c..f5a030333dfd86d6bad61a90dae066a90c1b52bf 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
+++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class LxDmesg(gdb.Command):
 
     def invoke(self, arg, from_tty):
         log_buf_addr = int(str(gdb.parse_and_eval(
-            "'printk.c'::log_buf")).split()[0], 16)
+            "(void *)'printk.c'::log_buf")).split()[0], 16)
         log_first_idx = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("'printk.c'::log_first_idx"))
         log_next_idx = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("'printk.c'::log_next_idx"))
         log_buf_len = int(gdb.parse_and_eval("'printk.c'::log_buf_len"))