[PATCH 2/2] tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bug

From: Li Zefan
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 23:07:01 EST


We should leave the last slot for the ending '\0'.

[ Impact: fix possible crash when the length of an operand is 128 ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 22c2998..a7430b1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static inline void clear_operand_string(struct filter_parse_state *ps)

static inline int append_operand_char(struct filter_parse_state *ps, char c)
{
- if (ps->operand.tail == MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL)
+ if (ps->operand.tail == MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL - 1)
return -EINVAL;

ps->operand.string[ps->operand.tail++] = c;
--
1.5.4.rc3
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