FUNCTION::KERNEL_STRING_QUOTED(3stap)

💖 NAME 💖

function::kernel_string_quoted — bestie, this one retrieves a string from kernel memory and wraps it in quotes for you 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kernel_string_quoted:string(addr:long)

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• addr — the kernel memory address you're pulling the string out of 🫶 like, the exact spot in kernel memory, that's the one

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so here's the tea ☕: this function hands you back the null terminated C string sitting at the kernel memory address you gave it. Iconic. But not just any old string — every ASCII character that isn't printable gets swapped out for its corresponding escape sequence in the string you get back. The way it just… sanitizes it for you? Obsessed 😭✨

Heads up bestie: the string comes back surrounded by double quotes. That's just the vibe. No cap.

And if the kernel memory data at that address isn't accessible at all? 💀 Then you just get the address itself returned as a string — and nope, no double quotes in that case. Different energy entirely, fr fr.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• tapset::conversions(3stap)

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k bye ily, go read your kernel memory responsibly 💜

This has been your girl from the SystemTap Tapset Reference, Ver September 2026 🌈👑