On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:46:53 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:
> Now one thing I could do is to not remove the parameter, but just add:
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE((src) != __data_offsets->item##_ptr_);
>
> in the __assign_str() macro to make sure that it's still the same that is
> assigned. But I'm not sure how useful that is, and still causes burden to
> have it. I never really liked the passing of the string in two places to
> begin with.
Hmm, maybe I'll just add this patch for 6.9 and then in 6.10 do the
parameter removal.
-- Steve
diff --git a/include/trace/stages/stage6_event_callback.h
b/include/trace/stages/stage6_event_callback.h
index 0c0f50bcdc56..7372e2c2a0c4 100644
--- a/include/trace/stages/stage6_event_callback.h
+++ b/include/trace/stages/stage6_event_callback.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #define __assign_str(dst, src)
do { \
char *__str__ = __get_str(dst); \
int __len__ = __get_dynamic_array_len(dst) - 1; \
+ WARN_ON_ONCE((src) != __data_offsets.dst##_ptr_); \
memcpy(__str__, __data_offsets.dst##_ptr_ ? : \
EVENT_NULL_STR, __len__); \
__str__[__len__] = '\0'; \
