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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-09 22:27:33 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-09 22:27:33 -0700
commite548833df83c3554229eff0672900bfe958b45fd (patch)
tree85efc4a76dc356593d6d394776aeb845dc580fb6 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parentcbd9da7be869f676afc204e1a664163778c770bd (diff)
parent053d8f6622701f849fda2ca2c9ae596c13599ba9 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: net/mac80211/main.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ba14a22be4c..9ec59f54115 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3463,6 +3463,7 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
size_t cnt, loff_t *fpos)
{
char *buf;
+ size_t written;
if (tracing_disabled)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -3484,11 +3485,15 @@ tracing_mark_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
} else
buf[cnt] = '\0';
- cnt = mark_printk("%s", buf);
+ written = mark_printk("%s", buf);
kfree(buf);
- *fpos += cnt;
+ *fpos += written;
- return cnt;
+ /* don't tell userspace we wrote more - it might confuse them */
+ if (written > cnt)
+ written = cnt;
+
+ return written;
}
static int tracing_clock_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)