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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug report] tracing: Have persistent trace instances save module addresses
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:15:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250313071537.19ad59df@batman.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44c5deaa-b094-4852-90f9-52f3fb10e67a@stanley.mountain>

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 11:50:12 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:

>     9421                 tscratch = ring_buffer_meta_scratch(buf->buffer, &scratch_size);
> --> 9422                 setup_trace_scratch(tr, tscratch, scratch_size);  
> 
> If ring_buffer_alloc_range() fails then scratch_size is uninitialized.
> This is "harmless".  According to the C standard, it's undefined but in
> the kernel we would allow it if setup_trace_scratch() is inlined.  Which
> it probably will be.  The other thing is that if it's not inline the
> UBSan detector will complain about these.
> 
> The compiler basically always initializes stack variables to zero these
> days so adding an "= 0;" doesn't change runtime at all.

Sure.

-- Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2025-03-13 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-13  8:50 [bug report] tracing: Have persistent trace instances save module addresses Dan Carpenter
2025-03-13 11:15 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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