linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:47:12 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()

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.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events.c |   17 ++++-------------
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 2c3a8c5..1d2c8db 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
-- 
1.5.5.1

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