In seq_buf_vprintf(), vsnprintf() is used to copy the format into the
buffer remaining in the seq_buf structure. The return of vsnprintf()
is the amount of characters written to the buffer excluding the '\0',
unless the line was truncated!
If the line copied does not fit, it is truncated, and a '\0' is added
to the end of the buffer. But in this case, '\0' is included in the length
of the line written. To know if the buffer had overflowed, the return
length will be the same as the length of the buffer passed in.
The check in seq_buf_vprintf() only checked if the length returned from
vsnprintf() would fit in the buffer, as the seq_buf_vprintf() is only
to be an all or nothing command. It either writes all the string into
the seq_buf, or none of it. If the string is truncated, the pointers
inside the seq_buf must be reset to what they were when the function was
called. This is not the case. On overflow, it copies only part of the string.
The fix is to change the overflow check to see if the length returned from
vsnprintf() is less than the length remaining in the seq_buf buffer, and not
if it is less than or equal to as it currently does. Then seq_buf_vprintf()
will know if the write from vsnpritnf() was truncated or not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that all bitmap formatting usages have been converted to
'%*pb[l]', the separate formatting functions are unnecessary. The
following functions are removed.
* bitmap_scn[list]printf()
* cpumask_scnprintf(), cpulist_scnprintf()
* [__]nodemask_scnprintf(), [__]nodelist_scnprintf()
* seq_bitmap[_list](), seq_cpumask[_list](), seq_nodemask[_list]()
* seq_buf_bitmask()
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The seq_buf functions are rather useful outside of tracing. Instead
of having it be dependent on CONFIG_TRACING, move the code into lib/
and allow other users to have access to it even when tracing is not
configured.
The seq_buf utility is similar to the seq_file utility, but instead of
writing sending data back up to userland, it writes it into a buffer
defined at seq_buf_init(). This allows us to send a descriptor around
that writes printf() formatted strings into it that can be retrieved
later.
It is currently used by the tracing facility for such things like trace
events to convert its binary saved data in the ring buffer into an
ASCII human readable context to be displayed in /sys/kernel/debug/trace.
It can also be used for doing NMI prints safely from NMI context into
the seq_buf and retrieved later and dumped to printk() safely. Doing
printk() from an NMI context is dangerous because an NMI can preempt
a current printk() and deadlock on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.058255809@goodmis.org
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)