linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than unsigned short

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Message-ID: <20240304185241.7ce42097@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:52:41 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Sachin Sant <sachinp@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] tracing: Prevent trace_marker being bigger than
 unsigned short

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 18:47:25 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> If I remove the precision, as I did in this patch. Then adding a limit is
> not fixing any bug. It's just adding a limit.

Anyway, I can change the limit to 4K and also change the trace_seq size to
just 8K to hold events, instead of using PAGE_SIZE.

But this still isn't fixing anything. It's just adding a limit.

I'll add that as a separate patch.

-- Steve