Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add an fsync tracer

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 06 2008 - 02:21:19 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > + buffer = kmalloc(4096, GFP_KERNEL);

> > > + err = d_path(&file->f_path, buffer, 4096);

hm, magic constants.

> > > + if (IS_ERR(err))
> > > + goto out;
> > > +
> > > + ftrace_printk("Process %s is calling fsync on %s\n",
> > > + current->comm, err);
> >
> > err? not buffer?
>
> correct, not buffer
>
> it won't work if you use buffer.

please use some other name than 'err' - since "error" is just a
property of the path string pointer you get back from do_path().

Ingo
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