The initial reason for this patch is that I noticed that: if (len > TRACE_BUF_SIZE) is off by one. In this code, if len == TRACE_BUF_SIZE, then it means we have truncated the last character off the output string. If we truncate two or more characters then we exit without printing. After some discussion, we decided that printing truncated data is better than not printing at all so we should just use vscnprintf() and remove the test entirely. Also I have updated memcpy() to copy the NUL char instead of setting the NUL in a separate step. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> 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); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html