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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);
}