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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-18 09:32:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-18 09:32:13 -0700
commit1ca72feb9343d10a620c3076b0aa6e80d613fcf7 (patch)
tree911ddec19e97d06877f3f00ee90f51389e030549 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parent7dfb2d4069cc698da925327e8c2106852a0c77a2 (diff)
parent9d5f3714e4705a66b6be693f7202192f756f498e (diff)
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Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len) tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ba14a22..9ec59f5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3463,6 +3463,7 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
size_t cnt, loff_t *fpos)
{
char *buf;
+ size_t written;
if (tracing_disabled)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -3484,11 +3485,15 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
} else
buf[cnt] = '\0';
- cnt = mark_printk("%s", buf);
+ written = mark_printk("%s", buf);
kfree(buf);
- *fpos += cnt;
+ *fpos += written;
- return cnt;
+ /* don't tell userspace we wrote more - it might confuse them */
+ if (written > cnt)
+ written = cnt;
+
+ return written;
}
static int tracing_clock_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
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