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-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ba14a22be4c..001bcd2ccf4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ int tracing_open_generic(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static int tracing_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- struct seq_file *m = (struct seq_file *)file->private_data;
+ struct seq_file *m = file->private_data;
struct trace_iterator *iter;
int cpu;
@@ -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)