[PATCH] synthetic tracing: Fix trace_string() return value

Fix trace_string() by assigning the string length to the return variable
which got lost in commit ddeea494a16f ("tracing/synthetic: Use union
instead of casts") and caused trace_string() to always return 0.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <redacted>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
index e7af286af4f1..c82b401a294d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c

@@ -441,8 +441,9 @@ static unsigned int trace_string(struct synth_trace_event *entry,
 	if (is_dynamic) {
 		union trace_synth_field *data = &entry->fields[*n_u64];
 
+		len = fetch_store_strlen((unsigned long)str_val);
 		data->as_dynamic.offset = struct_size(entry, fields, event->n_u64) + data_size;
-		data->as_dynamic.len = fetch_store_strlen((unsigned long)str_val);
+		data->as_dynamic.len = len;
 
 		ret = fetch_store_string((unsigned long)str_val, &entry->fields[*n_u64], entry);
 

-- 
2.39.2

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:05:56 +0100
Thorsten Blum [off-list ref] wrote:

Fix trace_string() by assigning the string length to the return variable
which got lost in commit ddeea494a16f ("tracing/synthetic: Use union
instead of casts") and caused trace_string() to always return 0.

Good catch!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Fixes: ddeea494a16f ("tracing/synthetic: Use union instead of casts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Thanks!

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [off-list ref]