Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:46:35 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | Re: [patch] tracing: off by one in __trace_array_vprintk() |
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:22:44AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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? >
Will do.
regards, dan carpenter
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