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commit eca344a7362e0f34f179298fd8366bcd556eede1 upstream. If a trace event has in its TP_printk(): "%*.s", len, len ? __get_str(string) : NULL It is perfectly valid if len is zero and passing in the NULL. Unfortunately, the runtime string check at time of reading the trace sees the NULL and flags it as a bad string and produces a WARN_ON(). Handle this case by passing into the test function if the format has an asterisk (star) and if so, if the length is zero, then mark it as safe. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YjsWzuw5FbWPrdqq@bfoster/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Tested-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Fixes: 9a6944fee68e2 ("tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers for trace events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.