Re: [PATCH 5.10 147/243] NFSD: Fix TP_printk() format specifier in nfsd_clid_class

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jul 20 2021 - 17:49:34 EST


Hi!

> [ Upstream commit a948b1142cae66785521a389cab2cce74069b547 ]
>
> Since commit 9a6944fee68e ("tracing: Add a verifier to check string
> pointers for trace events"), which was merged in v5.13-rc1,
> TP_printk() no longer tacitly supports the "%.*s" format specifier.
>
> These are low value tracepoints, so just remove them.

So I understand we want this for mainline, but AFAICT 5.10 does not
have 9a6944fee68e ("tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers
for trace events") commit, so this does not fix any bug and removal of
tracepoints can be surprising.

Best regards,
Pavel

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