From aeaeae1187d7520f1c5559623f0a149da6a1c96e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:09:51 +0200 Subject: tracing: Restore the const qualifier for field names and types definition Restore the const qualifier in field's name and type parameters of trace_define_field that was lost while solving a conflict. Fields names and types are defined as builtin constant strings in static TRACE_EVENTs. But kprobes allocates these dynamically. That said, we still want to always pass these strings as const char * in trace_define_fields() to avoid any further accidental writes on the pointed strings. Reported-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c index 5931933587e9..a928dd004535 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c @@ -193,8 +193,8 @@ int syscall_enter_define_fields(struct ftrace_event_call *call) return ret; for (i = 0; i < meta->nb_args; i++) { - ret = trace_define_field(call, (char *)meta->types[i], - (char *)meta->args[i], offset, + ret = trace_define_field(call, meta->types[i], + meta->args[i], offset, sizeof(unsigned long), 0, FILTER_OTHER); offset += sizeof(unsigned long); -- cgit v1.2.3