Re: [PATCH 1/1] rcutorture: fixes for printing message buffer

[Pranith Kumar]

On 07/11/2014 04:37 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 16:30 -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() for writing to the message buffer.
>> Also use vmalloc() for the allocation of the message buffer. Since pr_alert() is
>> limited to print LOG_LINE_MAX characters at a time, we print the buffer in a
>> loop one line at a time.
>>
>> I tested this using the parse-torture.sh script as follows:
> 
> Did you see the patch I sent you?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/20/604
> 
> It doesn't need a vmalloc.
> What is wrong with that approach?
> 
> 

Hi Paul,

Please find an alternative patch as suggested by Joe.