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[S390] s390dbf: Add description for usage of "%s" in sprintf events

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Using "%s" in sprintf event functions is dangerous. This patch adds a short
description for this issue to the s390 debug feature documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Michael Holzheu
2009-09-11 10:28:59 +02:00
committed by Martin Schwidefsky
parent 0c88ee5b75
commit f64d04c042
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@@ -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.