On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:53:02 +0100
Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> * Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:04:58 -0500
> > Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The code in traceprobe_probes_write() reads up to 4096 bytes from userpace
> > > for each line. If userspace passes in several lines to execute, the code
> > > will do a large read for each line, even though, it is highly likely that
> > > the first read from userspace received all of the lines at one.
> > > 
> > > I changed the logic to do a single read from userspace, and to only read
> > > from userspace again if not all of the read from userspace made it in.
> > > 
> > > I tested this by adding printk()s and writing files that would test -1, 
> > > ==,
> > > and +1 the buffer size, to make sure that there's no overflows and that 
> > > if a
> > > single line is written with +1 the buffer size, that it fails properly.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks Steve!
> > 
> > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> > 
> > BTW, this can conflict with my previous patch.
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/6/1048
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/7/203
> > 
> > I'll update this. Ingo, Can I send these patch to Steve?
> 
> Sure, I've not applied your patch yet - mind sending it to Steve on top of 
> Steve's 
> patch?

Of course, yes. :)

Thanks!

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>       Ingo


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