Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.0-rc2-2' of...
Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.0-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull seq-buf/ftrace fixes from Steven Rostedt: "This includes fixes for seq_buf_bprintf() truncation issue. It also contains fixes to ftrace when /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled and function tracing are started. Doing the following causes some issues: # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled # echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer # echo function_graph > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer As well as with function tracing too. Pratyush Anand first reported this issue to me and supplied a patch. When I tested this on my x86 test box, it caused thousands of backtraces and warnings to appear in dmesg, which also caused a denial of service (a warning for every function that was listed). I applied Pratyush's patch but it did not fix the i...
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