Re: [PATCH v2] batman-adv: tracing: Use the new __vstring() helper

From: Sven Eckelmann
Date: Mon Jul 25 2022 - 03:34:12 EST


On Monday, 25 July 2022 01:16:50 CEST Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Instead of open coding a __dynamic_array() with a fixed length (which
> defeats the purpose of the dynamic array in the first place). Use the new
> __vstring() helper that will use a va_list and only write enough of the
> string into the ring buffer that is needed.

Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(and sorry for taking such a long time to respond to the v1 version of the
patch).

> ---
> Changes since v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220705224751.080390002@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> - Removed no longer used BATADV_MAX_MSG_LEN
>
> net/batman-adv/trace.h | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/batman-adv/trace.h b/net/batman-adv/trace.h
> index d673ebdd0426..31c8f922651d 100644
> --- a/net/batman-adv/trace.h
> +++ b/net/batman-adv/trace.h
> @@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
>
> #endif /* CONFIG_BATMAN_ADV_TRACING */
>
> -#define BATADV_MAX_MSG_LEN 256
> -
> TRACE_EVENT(batadv_dbg,
>
> TP_PROTO(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
> @@ -40,16 +38,13 @@ TRACE_EVENT(batadv_dbg,
> TP_STRUCT__entry(
> __string(device, bat_priv->soft_iface->name)
> __string(driver, KBUILD_MODNAME)
> - __dynamic_array(char, msg, BATADV_MAX_MSG_LEN)
> + __vstring(msg, vaf->fmt, vaf->va)
> ),
>
> TP_fast_assign(
> __assign_str(device, bat_priv->soft_iface->name);
> __assign_str(driver, KBUILD_MODNAME);
> - WARN_ON_ONCE(vsnprintf(__get_dynamic_array(msg),
> - BATADV_MAX_MSG_LEN,
> - vaf->fmt,
> - *vaf->va) >= BATADV_MAX_MSG_LEN);
> + __assign_vstr(msg, vaf->fmt, vaf->va);
> ),
>
> TP_printk(
>

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