From 6f4596d9312ba5fbf5f3231ef484823c4e684d2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:22:45 +0200
Subject: perf trace: Fix read_string()

We did not account for the enclosing \0. Depending on what malloc()
gave us this resulted in corrupted version string printouts.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c
index b12e4903739a..a1217a10632f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c
@@ -113,8 +113,11 @@ static char *read_string(void)
 		}
 	}
 
+	/* trailing \0: */
+	i++;
+
 	/* move the file descriptor to the end of the string */
-	r = lseek(input_fd, -(r - (i+1)), SEEK_CUR);
+	r = lseek(input_fd, -(r - i), SEEK_CUR);
 	if (r < 0)
 		die("lseek");
 
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