Re: [PATCH] trace: fix potenial dangerous pointer

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 12:09:51 EST


On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:05:23PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:52:05 +0800
> Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The bdi_dev_name() returns a char [64], and
> > the __entry->name is a char [32].
> >
> > It maybe dangerous to TP_printk("%s", __entry->name)
> > after the strncpy().
>
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This should go through the tree that has the code that uses these
> tracepoints.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Andrew, can you please route this one?

Thanks.

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tejun