From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <[email protected]> The ring_buffer_read_page() takes care of zeroing out any extra data in the page that it returns. There's no need to zero it out again from the consumer. It was removed from one consumer of this function, but read_buffers_splice_read() did not remove it, and worse, it contained a nasty bug because of it.
Cc: [email protected] Fixes: 2711ca237a084 ("ring-buffer: Move zeroing out excess in page to ring buffer code") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 59518b8126d0..73652d5318b2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -6769,7 +6769,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, .spd_release = buffer_spd_release, }; struct buffer_ref *ref; - int entries, size, i; + int entries, i; ssize_t ret = 0; #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE @@ -6823,14 +6823,6 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, break; } - /* - * zero out any left over data, this is going to - * user land. - */ - size = ring_buffer_page_len(ref->page); - if (size < PAGE_SIZE) - memset(ref->page + size, 0, PAGE_SIZE - size); - page = virt_to_page(ref->page); spd.pages[i] = page; -- 2.13.2
