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Message-ID: <20161007041907.GC31113@sejong>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 13:19:08 +0900
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools lib traceevent: Fix kbuffer_read_at_offset()
Hi Steve,
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:28:01AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 19:17:00 +0900
> Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well, it can at most be equal to (unless offset is negative) because
> kbuffer_load_subbuffer() sets kbuf->curr to zero.
Actually kbuffer_load_subbuffer() calls kbuf->next_event(). Inside
the function it has a loop updating next valid event. Sometimes, the
data starts with TIME_EXTEND with value of 0 and the loop skips it
which ended up setting kbuf->curr to 8. :)
I'll take a look it later.
>
> But that said, it looks like offset == 0 is buggy.
>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Thanks,
Namhyung
>
>
> -- Steve
>
> >
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > 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);
>
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