[PATCH 12/14] tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jul 22 2013 - 10:22:09 EST


From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

event_id_read() has no reason to kmalloc "struct trace_seq"
(more than PAGE_SIZE!), it can use a small buffer instead.

Note: "if (*ppos) return 0" looks strange and even wrong,
simple_read_from_buffer() handles ppos != 0 case corrrectly.

And it seems that almost every user of trace_seq in this file
should be converted too. Unless you use seq_open(), trace_seq
buys nothing compared to the raw buffer, but it needs a bit
more memory and code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130718184712.GA4786@xxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 17 ++++-------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 76defd9..898f868 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -947,23 +947,14 @@ static ssize_t
event_id_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct ftrace_event_call *call = filp->private_data;
- struct trace_seq *s;
- int r;
+ char buf[32];
+ int len;

if (*ppos)
return 0;

- s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!s)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- trace_seq_init(s);
- trace_seq_printf(s, "%d\n", call->event.type);
-
- r = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos,
- s->buffer, s->len);
- kfree(s);
- return r;
+ len = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", call->event.type);
+ return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, len);
}

static ssize_t
--
1.7.10.4


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