Re: [PATCH 5.10 147/243] NFSD: Fix TP_printk() format specifier in nfsd_clid_class

Sasha Levin
2021-07-21T15:19:09Z

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:04:13AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:48:47 +0200
>Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> > [ Upstream commit a948b1142cae66785521a389cab2cce74069b547 ]
>> >
>> > Since commit 9a6944fee68e ("tracing: Add a verifier to check string
>> > pointers for trace events"), which was merged in v5.13-rc1,
>> > TP_printk() no longer tacitly supports the "%.*s" format specifier.
>> >
>> > These are low value tracepoints, so just remove them.
>>
>> So I understand we want this for mainline, but AFAICT 5.10 does not
>> have 9a6944fee68e ("tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers
>> for trace events") commit, so this does not fix any bug and removal of
>> tracepoints can be surprising.
>>
>
>Thanks for pointing this out. I get so many stable patches, I don't
>have time to look at all of them.
>
>Greg, I don't think this should be backported. The verifier code had a
>bug in it that broke the '%.*s' formats. This patch removed the good
>code because of the broken code.
>
>See eb01f5353bdaa ("tracing: Handle %.*s in trace_check_vprintf()")

Uh, yes, I'll drop it. Thanks for catching this!

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Thanks,
Sasha