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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:49:45 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@...dl.org>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	olof@...om.net, rostedt@...dmis.org, Carsten.Emde@...dl.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, C.Emde@...dl.org
Subject: [tip:tracing/core] tracing: Remove comparing of NULL to va_list in trace_array_vprintk()

Commit-ID:  f2942487ffb0c0a80b2312f667ea30dd55a24bb0
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f2942487ffb0c0a80b2312f667ea30dd55a24bb0
Author:     Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@...dl.org>
AuthorDate: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:02:44 +0100
Committer:  Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:20:08 -0500

tracing: Remove comparing of NULL to va_list in trace_array_vprintk()

Olof Johansson stated the following:

  Comparing a va_list with NULL is bogus. It's supposed to be treated like
  an opaque type and only be manipulated with va_* accessors.

Olof noticed that this code broke the ARM builds:

    kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'trace_array_vprintk':
    kernel/trace/trace.c:1364: error: invalid operands to binary == (have 'va_list' and 'void *')
    kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_mark_write':
    kernel/trace/trace.c:3349: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of 'trace_vprintk'

This patch partly reverts c13d2f7c3231e873f30db92b96c8caa48f100f33 and
re-installs the original mark_printk() mechanism.

Reported-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@...dl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B1BAB74.104@...dl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   18 ++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 484114d..88bd9ae 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1361,11 +1361,7 @@ int trace_array_vprintk(struct trace_array *tr,
 	pause_graph_tracing();
 	raw_local_irq_save(irq_flags);
 	__raw_spin_lock(&trace_buf_lock);
-	if (args == NULL) {
-		strncpy(trace_buf, fmt, TRACE_BUF_SIZE);
-		len = strlen(trace_buf);
-	} else
-		len = vsnprintf(trace_buf, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
+	len = vsnprintf(trace_buf, TRACE_BUF_SIZE, fmt, args);
 
 	size = sizeof(*entry) + len + 1;
 	buffer = tr->buffer;
@@ -3353,6 +3349,16 @@ tracing_entries_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 	return cnt;
 }
 
+static int mark_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	int ret;
+	va_list args;
+	va_start(args, fmt);
+	ret = trace_vprintk(0, fmt, args);
+	va_end(args);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static ssize_t
 tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 					size_t cnt, loff_t *fpos)
@@ -3379,7 +3385,7 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 	} else
 		buf[cnt] = '\0';
 
-	cnt = trace_vprintk(0, buf, NULL);
+	cnt = mark_printk("%s", buf);
 	kfree(buf);
 	*fpos += cnt;
 
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