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SubjectRe: tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events
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On 07/10/2020 14:30, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:08:38 +0100
> Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Static analysis with Coverity has detected a duplicated condition in an
>> if statement in the following commit in source
>> kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
>>
>> commit bd82631d7ccdc894af2738e47abcba2cb6e7dea9
>> Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
>> Date: Sun Oct 4 17:14:06 2020 -0500
>>
>> tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events
>>
>> Analysis is as follows:
>>
>> 493 for (i = 0; i < event->n_fields; i++) {
>>
>> Same on both sides (CONSTANT_EXPRESSION_RESULT)
>> pointless_expression: The expression event->fields[i]->is_dynamic &&
>> event->fields[i]->is_dynamic does not accomplish anything because it
>> evaluates to either of its identical operands, event->fields[i]->is_dynamic.
>>
>> Did you intend the operands to be different?
>>
>> 494 if (event->fields[i]->is_dynamic &&
>> 495 event->fields[i]->is_dynamic)
>
> Bah, I believe that was suppose to be:
>
> if (event->fields[i]->is_string &&
> event->fields[i]->is_dynamic)
>
> I'll go and fix that.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!

>
> -- Steve
>
>> 496 pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO,
>> 497 ", __get_str(%s)",
>> event->fields[i]->name);
>> 498 else
>> 499 pos += snprintf(buf + pos, LEN_OR_ZERO,
>> 500 ", REC->%s",
>> event->fields[i]->name);
>> 501 }
>>
>> Colin
>

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