On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:44:44 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:

> From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rost...@goodmis.org>
> 
> If for some reason the trace_marker write does not have a nul byte for the
> string, it will overflow the print:
> 
>   trace_seq_printf(s, ": %s", field->buf);
> 
> The field->buf could be missing the nul byte. To prevent overflow, add the
> max size that the buf can be by using the event size and the field
> location.
> 
>   int max = iter->ent_size - offsetof(struct print_entry, buf);
> 
>   trace_seq_printf(s, ": %*s", max, field->buf);

Bah, this needs to be:

   trace_seq_printf(s, ": %.*s", max, field->buf);

Note the '.' between % and *. Otherwise it right aligns the output.

This did fail the selftest for trace_printk(), but I modified the new one
to add " *" to accommodate it :-p

Sending out v2.

-- Steve


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