[PATCH 19/18] tracing: Restore the const qualifier for field names and types definition

Frederic Weisbecker
2009-08-27T03:34:53Z

Restore the const qualifier in field's name and type parameters of
trace_define_field that was lost while solving a conflict.

Fields names and types are defined as builtin constant strings in
static TRACE_EVENTs. But kprobes allocates these dynamically.

That said, we still want to always pass these strings as const char *
in trace_define_fields() to avoid any further accidental writes on
the pointed strings.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 6 +++---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 4 ++--
kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index 1ab3089..73edf5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ enum {
};

extern int trace_define_common_fields(struct ftrace_event_call *call);
-extern int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *type,
- char *name, int offset, int size, int is_signed,
- int filter_type);
+extern int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,
+ const char *name, int offset, int size,
+ int is_signed, int filter_type);
extern int trace_add_event_call(struct ftrace_event_call *call);
extern void trace_remove_event_call(struct ftrace_event_call *call);

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 8079bb5..197cdaa 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ DEFINE_MUTEX(event_mutex);

LIST_HEAD(ftrace_events);

-int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, char *type,
- char *name, int offset, int size, int is_signed,
+int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,
+ const char *name, int offset, int size, int is_signed,
int filter_type)
{
struct ftrace_event_field *field;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 5931933..a928dd0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ int syscall_enter_define_fields(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
return ret;

for (i = 0; i < meta->nb_args; i++) {
- ret = trace_define_field(call, (char *)meta->types[i],
- (char *)meta->args[i], offset,
+ ret = trace_define_field(call, meta->types[i],
+ meta->args[i], offset,
sizeof(unsigned long), 0,
FILTER_OTHER);
offset += sizeof(unsigned long);
--
1.6.2.3