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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2008-11-16 05:53:19 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-16 07:53:39 +0100
commite6e7a65aabdb696cf05a56cfd495c49a11fd4cde (patch)
treee73e423314b49ebc861ef5e7547ad97493a5e179 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parentee02a2e5c88ca2e4d6921f08d037b46d5bf82641 (diff)
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tracing/ftrace: fix unexpected -EINVAL when longest tracer name is set
Impact: fix confusing write() -EINVAL when changing the tracer The following commit d9e540762f5cdd89f24e518ad1fd31142d0b9726 remade alive the bug which made the set of a new tracer returning -EINVAL if this is the longest name of tracer. This patch corrects it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index dff4bee..80898f4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2655,6 +2655,9 @@ tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
char buf[max_tracer_type_len+1];
int i;
size_t ret;
+ int err;
+
+ ret = cnt;
if (cnt > max_tracer_type_len)
cnt = max_tracer_type_len;
@@ -2668,12 +2671,11 @@ tracing_set_trace_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
for (i = cnt - 1; i > 0 && isspace(buf[i]); i--)
buf[i] = 0;
- ret = tracing_set_tracer(buf);
- if (!ret)
- ret = cnt;
+ err = tracing_set_tracer(buf);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
- if (ret > 0)
- filp->f_pos += ret;
+ filp->f_pos += ret;
return ret;
}
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