[for-next][PATCH 3/6] tracing: Make sure the parsed string always terminates with \0

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 13:38:26 EST


From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>

Always mark the parsed string with a terminated nul '\0' character. This removes
the need for the users to have to append the '\0' before using the parsed string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516093350-12045-4-git-send-email-changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 --
kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++--
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 2 --
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 554b517c61a0..dabd9d167d42 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -5015,7 +5015,6 @@ int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

parser = &iter->parser;
if (trace_parser_loaded(parser)) {
- parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
ftrace_match_records(iter->hash, parser->buffer, parser->idx);
}

@@ -5329,7 +5328,6 @@ ftrace_graph_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
parser = &fgd->parser;

if (trace_parser_loaded((parser))) {
- parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
ret = ftrace_graph_set_hash(fgd->new_hash,
parser->buffer);
}
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index cb90435e63da..58de825df19c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -530,8 +530,6 @@ int trace_pid_write(struct trace_pid_list *filtered_pids,
ubuf += ret;
cnt -= ret;

- parser.buffer[parser.idx] = 0;
-
ret = -EINVAL;
if (kstrtoul(parser.buffer, 0, &val))
break;
@@ -1268,6 +1266,8 @@ int trace_get_user(struct trace_parser *parser, const char __user *ubuf,
} else if (parser->idx < parser->size - 1) {
parser->cont = true;
parser->buffer[parser->idx++] = ch;
+ /* Make sure the parsed string always terminates with '\0'. */
+ parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;
} else {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 1b87157edbff..05c7172c6667 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -885,8 +885,6 @@ ftrace_event_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
if (*parser.buffer == '!')
set = 0;

- parser.buffer[parser.idx] = 0;
-
ret = ftrace_set_clr_event(tr, parser.buffer + !set, set);
if (ret)
goto out_put;
--
2.15.1