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 <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>
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Leonard Crestez 2017-07-12 14:34:16 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 821f74402a
commit c454756f47

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@ -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"))