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1From c5e691928bf166ac03430e957038b60adba3cf6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
3Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:57:55 -0400
4Subject: tools lib traceevent kbuffer: Remove extra update to data pointer in PADDING
5
6From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
7
8commit c5e691928bf166ac03430e957038b60adba3cf6c upstream.
9
10When a event PADDING is hit (a deleted event that is still in the ring
11buffer), translate_data() sets the length of the padding and also updates
12the data pointer which is passed back to the caller.
13
14This is unneeded because the caller also updates the data pointer with
15the passed back length. translate_data() should not update the pointer,
16only set the length.
17
18Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
19Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
20Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
21Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
22Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150324135923.461431960@goodmis.org
23Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
24Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
25
26---
27 tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c | 1 -
28 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
29
30--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
31+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
32@@ -372,7 +372,6 @@ translate_data(struct kbuffer *kbuf, voi
33 switch (type_len) {
34 case KBUFFER_TYPE_PADDING:
35 *length = read_4(kbuf, data);
36- data += *length;
37 break;
38
39 case KBUFFER_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND: