From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch•org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis•org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia•com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: devlink: Use static array for string in devlink_trap_report even
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:34:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ys5nYctVGd6WD70M@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220712185820.002d9fb5@gandalf.local.home>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 06:58:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis•org>
>
> The trace event devlink_trap_report uses the __dynamic_array() macro to
> determine the size of the input_dev_name field. This is because it needs
> to test the dev field for NULL, and will use "NULL" if it is. But it also
> has the size of the dynamic array as a fixed IFNAMSIZ bytes. This defeats
> the purpose of the dynamic array, as this will reserve that amount of
> bytes on the ring buffer, and to make matters worse, it will even save
> that size in the event as the event expects it to be dynamic (for which it
> is not).
>
> Since IFNAMSIZ is just 16 bytes, just make it a static array and this will
> remove the meta data from the event that records the size.
>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel•org>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia•com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>
> Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis•org>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia•com>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia•com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-13 6:34 UTC|newest]
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2022-07-12 22:58 [PATCH v2] tracing: devlink: Use static array for string in devlink_trap_report even Steven Rostedt
2022-07-13 6:34 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
2022-07-13 19:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
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