linux-kernel - [PATCH] trace: fix a wrong usage of simple_read_from

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 03:11:09 -0400
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] trace: fix a wrong usage of simple_read_from_buffer()


The last argument of simple_read_from_buffer() is the amount of the
available bytes in the buffer, not the size of the buffer.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

---
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index a884c09..3a0bc70 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2125,7 +2125,7 @@ tracing_cpumask_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 	len += sprintf(mask_str + len, "\n");
-	count = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, ppos, mask_str, NR_CPUS+1);
+	count = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, ppos, mask_str, len);
 
 out_err:
 	mutex_unlock(&tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
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