tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring buffer page
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Sat, 23 Dec 2017 01:38:57 +0000 (20:38 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:35:06 +0000 (20:35 +0100)
commit6edea15d120c6e18b6383969e35d6a9683b31d2c
treeb676bb728f6ab80e0fd26cb61fdfba333f51102a
parent3d16a1315add12386894e7dc7bc86454e4f4b79d
tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring buffer page

commit 6b7e633fe9c24682df550e5311f47fb524701586 upstream.

The ring_buffer_read_page() takes care of zeroing out any extra data in the
page that it returns. There's no need to zero it out again from the
consumer. It was removed from one consumer of this function, but
read_buffers_splice_read() did not remove it, and worse, it contained a
nasty bug because of it.

Fixes: 2711ca237a084 ("ring-buffer: Move zeroing out excess in page to ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/trace.c