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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, wangnan0@huawei.com, hekuang@huawei.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk()
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:58:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DFC048.4070504@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150827194332.279edaa4@gandalf.local.home>

On 8/27/15 4:43 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:06:14 -0700
>>
>>> Fair or you still think it should be per byte copy?
>>
>> I'm terribly surprised we don't have an equivalent of strncpy()
>> for unsafe kernel pointers.
>>
>> You probably won't be the last person to want this, and it's silly
>> to optimize it in one place and then wait for cut&paste into the
>> next guy.
>
> If it doesn't exist. Perhaps its time to create it.

all makes sense. Working on generalizing FETCH_FUNC_NAME
from trace_kprobe.c. Seems to fit quite well.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-08-28  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27  6:26 [PATCH net-next] bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk() Alexei Starovoitov
2015-08-27 22:34 ` David Miller
2015-08-27 23:06   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-08-27 23:20     ` David Miller
2015-08-27 23:43       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-28  1:58         ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]

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