Hi, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, Hui Wang wrote: > The function simple_write_to_buffer() doesn't add string termination > at the end of buf, we need to add it on our own if calling that > function to write the size of count chars to buf. This change refers > to the function tokenize_input() in debug.c and the function > sof_dfsentry_trace_filter_write() in trace.c. [...] > --- a/sound/soc/sof/debug.c > +++ b/sound/soc/sof/debug.c > @@ -352,9 +352,10 @@ static ssize_t sof_dfsentry_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, > char *string; > int ret; > > - string = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); > + string = kzalloc(count+1, GFP_KERNEL); ouch, good catch, thanks! We have this correct in soc/sof/trace.c, but not here. To keep up with kernel style, maybe: + string = kzalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!string) > return -ENOMEM; > + string[count] = '\0'; kzalloc() returns zeros, so no need for this. Br, Kai