Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index a9d9760dc7b..8b0daf0662e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -168,7 +168,13 @@ rb_event_length(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
  */
 unsigned ring_buffer_event_length(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 {
-	return rb_event_length(event);
+	unsigned length = rb_event_length(event);
+	if (event->type != RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA)
+		return length;
+	length -= RB_EVNT_HDR_SIZE;
+	if (length > RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA + sizeof(event->array[0]))
+                length -= sizeof(event->array[0]);
+	return length;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_event_length);