linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bug

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Date:	Fri, 15 May 2009 11:07:56 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bug

We should leave the last slot for the ending '\0'.

[ Impact: fix possible crash when the length of an operand is 128 ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 22c2998..a7430b1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static inline void clear_operand_string(struct filter_parse_state *ps)
 
 static inline int append_operand_char(struct filter_parse_state *ps, char c)
 {
-	if (ps->operand.tail == MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL)
+	if (ps->operand.tail == MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL - 1)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ps->operand.string[ps->operand.tail++] = c;
-- 
1.5.4.rc3
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