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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-11 20:35:13 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-11 20:35:13 -0700 |
| commit | cabc5c0f7fa1342049042d6e147db5a73773955b (patch) | |
| tree | 2be09ae1777d580c7dfe05d6d5b76e57281ec447 /Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt | |
| parent | b73d884756303316ead4cd7dad51236b2a515a1a (diff) | |
| parent | 86d710146fb9975f04c505ec78caa43d227c1018 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
arch/sparc/Kconfig
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diff --git a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt index 2d10053dd97e..ae66f9b90a25 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/s390dbf.txt @@ -495,6 +495,13 @@ and for each vararg a long value. So e.g. for a debug entry with a format string plus two varargs one would need to allocate a (3 * sizeof(long)) byte data area in the debug_register() function. +IMPORTANT: Using "%s" in sprintf event functions is dangerous. You can only +use "%s" in the sprintf event functions, if the memory for the passed string is +available as long as the debug feature exists. The reason behind this is that +due to performance considerations only a pointer to the string is stored in +the debug feature. If you log a string that is freed afterwards, you will get +an OOPS when inspecting the debug feature, because then the debug feature will +access the already freed memory. NOTE: If using the sprintf view do NOT use other event/exception functions than the sprintf-event and -exception functions. |