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SubjectRe: [patch] tracing: off by one in __trace_array_vprintk()
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:05:41 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 09:43:06AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I highly doubt it's much of a speed up. And we do that by sacrificing
> > that one byte of buffer, which would lose the printk if len does equal
> > TRACE_BUF_SIZE.
> >
> > I don't see a bug here. What exactly are you trying to fix?
>
> Heh. vsnprintf() is going to put a NUL char at the end of the string
> even if you don't plan to use it. :P
>
> Another option would be to just print truncated output. We could use
> vscnprintf() and remove the off by one limit check.

Yes, that is a better patch. The previous one wasn't really fixing
anything. But printing truncated output is better than nothing.

Want to send it officially?

Thanks,

-- Steve

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 42a822d..ab76b7b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -2160,9 +2160,7 @@ __trace_array_vprintk(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
> goto out;
> }
>
> - len = vsnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
> - if (len > TRACE_BUF_SIZE)
> - goto out;
> + len = vscnprintf(tbuffer, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
>
> local_save_flags(flags);
> size = sizeof(*entry) + len + 1;
> @@ -2173,8 +2171,7 @@ __trace_array_vprintk(struct ring_buffer *buffer,
> entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
> entry->ip = ip;
>
> - memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len);
> - entry->buf[len] = '\0';
> + memcpy(&entry->buf, tbuffer, len + 1);
> if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event)) {
> __buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
> ftrace_trace_stack(buffer, flags, 6, pc);



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