FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 4d38328eb442dc06aec4350fd9594ffa6488af02
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025040851-snowstorm-anyhow-9887@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4d38328eb442dc06aec4350fd9594ffa6488af02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:52:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields

The printk format for synth event uses "%.*s" to print string fields,
but then only passes the pointer part as var arg.

Replace %.*s with %s as the C string is guaranteed to be null-terminated.

The output in print fmt should never have been updated as __get_str()
handles the string limit because it can access the length of the string in
the string meta data that is saved in the ring buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 8db4d6bfbbf92 ("tracing: Change synthetic event string format to limit printed length")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250325165202.541088-1-douglas.raillard@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index a5c5f34c207a..6d592cbc38e4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ static const char *synth_field_fmt(char *type)
 	else if (strcmp(type, "gfp_t") == 0)
 		fmt = "%x";
 	else if (synth_field_is_string(type))
-		fmt = "%.*s";
+		fmt = "%s";
 	else if (synth_field_is_stack(type))
 		fmt = "%s";