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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: disallow newline as delimeter
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090421101619.GA19660@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ED9C91.4070201@cn.fujitsu.com>


* Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >>> * Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I guess because user input is often ended with '\n' (like "echo 
> >>>> xxx"), thus '\n' is used as a delimeter besides ' ', but we can 
> >>>> just strip tailing spaces.
> >>> Hm, how about:
> >>>
> >>> ( echo 'x'
> >>>   echo '|| y' ) > filter
> >>>
> >>> type of scripts? Shouldnt the parser be permissive in general?
> >>>
> >> This patch doesn't forbid this usage: ;)
> >>
> >> ( echo 'parent_comm == a'
> >>   echo '|| parent_comm == b' ) > filter
> >>
> >> This patch does forbid this usage:
> >>
> >> ( echo 'parent_comm'
> >>   echo '=='
> >>   echo 'a' ) > filter
> > 
> > Same argument though, no?
> > 
> 
> Then I have no strong opinion on this. I'm fine to drop this patch.

I've applied the other two - no strong opinion either about this 
patch. Tom, what do you think? (there's also some new parser in the 
works i suspect)

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21  9:11 [PATCH 1/3] tracing/filters: don't remove old filters when failed to write subsys->filter Li Zefan
2009-04-21  9:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] tracing/filters: allow user-input to be integer-like string Li Zefan
2009-04-21 10:08   ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Li Zefan
2009-04-21  9:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: disallow newline as delimeter Li Zefan
2009-04-21  9:57   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 10:06     ` Li Zefan
2009-04-21 10:07       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-21 10:14         ` Li Zefan
2009-04-21 10:16           ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-22  5:21             ` Tom Zanussi
2009-04-22  8:09               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-23  5:18                 ` Tom Zanussi
2009-04-21 10:08 ` [tip:tracing/core] tracing/filters: don't remove old filters when failed to write subsys->filter tip-bot for Li Zefan

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