Re: [GIT PULL] ftrace: Fixes for v6.13

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Dec 15 2024 - 00:21:01 EST


On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 at 20:52, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But main code of trace_check_vprintk() that you appear to be objecting to
> is the hacking into vsnprintf() that was added back in 2021 to handle the
> RCU and other events that point to their strings. I'm not sure how we can
> check that before hand because we don't see the pointers until the event is
> being printed.

I'm objecting to ALL of it.

It's a debug feature that is *broken*. And not in some kind of subtle
way. In a very fundamental way.

Linus