From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752426AbaLCWOq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:14:46 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.232]:32890 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751896AbaLCWNx (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:13:53 -0500 Message-Id: <20141203221351.970987371@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.61-1 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:13:16 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Dan Carpenter Subject: [for-next][PATCH 5/5] tracing: Truncated output is better than nothing References: <20141203221311.563559646@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0005-tracing-Truncated-output-is-better-than-nothing.patch X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Dan Carpenter The initial reason for this patch is that I noticed that: if (len > TRACE_BUF_SIZE) is off by one. In this code, if len == TRACE_BUF_SIZE, then it means we have truncated the last character off the output string. If we truncate two or more characters then we exit without printing. After some discussion, we decided that printing truncated data is better than not printing at all so we should just use vscnprintf() and remove the test entirely. Also I have updated memcpy() to copy the NUL char instead of setting the NUL in a separate step. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141127155752.GA21914@mwanda Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 3ce3c4ccfc94..4ceb2546c7ef 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2158,9 +2158,7 @@ __trace_array_vprintk(struct ring_buffer *buffer, goto out; } - len = vsnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args); - if (len > TRACE_BUF_SIZE) - goto out; + len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args); local_save_flags(flags); size = sizeof(*entry) + len + 1; @@ -2171,8 +2169,7 @@ __trace_array_vprintk(struct ring_buffer *buffer, entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event); entry->ip = ip; - memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len); - entry->buf[len] = '\0'; + memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len + 1); if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event)) { __buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event); ftrace_trace_stack(buffer, flags, 6, pc); -- 2.1.3