Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2019 15:13:37 -0400 | From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 058/186] tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string |
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 05:31:13PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 09:14:34 -0400 >Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote: > >> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> >> >> [ Upstream commit 3dd1f7f24f8ceec00bbbc364c2ac3c893f0fdc4c ] >> >> Fix to make the type of $comm "string". If we set the other type to $comm >> argument, it shows meaningless value or wrong data. Currently probe events >> allow us to set string array type (e.g. ":string[2]"), or other digit types >> like x8 on $comm. But since clearly $comm is just a string data, it should >> not be fetched by other types including array. >> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155723736241.9149.14582064184468574539.stgit@devnote2 >> >> Cc: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> >> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> Fixes: 533059281ee5 ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code") > >I thought the "AUTOSEL" patches are to find patches that are not marked >for stable and pull them in. It would be good to differentiate those in >the subject. As I'm more inclined to audit automatically pulled in ones, >because those are more likely to be incorrectly backported.
That's indeed the case. I had some experimental changes for this merge window and apparently some stable tagged patches ended up sneaking in. Sorry about that!.
-- Thanks, Sasha
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