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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:48:47 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks for pointing this out. I get so many stable patches, I don't
have time to look at all of them.

Greg, I don't think this should be backported. The verifier code had a
bug in it that broke the '%.*s' formats. This patch removed the good
code because of the broken code.

See eb01f5353bdaa ("tracing: Handle %.*s in trace_check_vprintf()")

-- Steve