linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/13] tools lib traceevent: Fix kbuffer_read_at

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Message-Id: <1475770316-20057-5-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu,  6 Oct 2016 13:11:47 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linux Weekly News <lwn@....net>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/13] tools lib traceevent: Fix kbuffer_read_at_offset()

From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

When it's called with an offset less than or equal to the first event,
it'll return a garbage value since the data is not initialized.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161001101700.29146-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
index 3bcada3ae05a..65984f1c2974 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ void *kbuffer_read_at_offset(struct kbuffer *kbuf, int offset,
 
 	/* Reset the buffer */
 	kbuffer_load_subbuffer(kbuf, kbuf->subbuffer);
+	data = kbuffer_read_event(kbuf, ts);
 
 	while (kbuf->curr < offset) {
 		data = kbuffer_next_event(kbuf, ts);
-- 
2.7.4