linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] i2c: core-smbus: don't trace smbus

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:02:30 +0100
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:     John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] i2c: core-smbus: don't trace smbus_reply data on
 errors

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 07:40:57PM -0800, John Sperbeck wrote:
> If an smbus transfer fails, there's no guarantee that the output
> buffer was written.  So, avoid trying to show the output buffer when
> tracing after an error.  This was 'mostly harmless', but would trip
> up kasan checking if left-over cruft in byte 0 is a large length,
> causing us to read from unwritten memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@...gle.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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