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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf script python: Fix string vs byte array resolving
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 17:58:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160716155808.GA16531@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160715131840.3a48a0ed@gandalf.local.home>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:18:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:29:55 +0200
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > +			if (field->flags & FIELD_IS_STRING &&
> > +			    is_printable_array(data + offset, len)) {
> > +				obj = PyString_FromString((char *) data + offset);
> 
> Hmm. As I stated, It is possible that strings can be non nul
> terminated. But I'm looking here and thinking we need to make sure that
> it is nul terminated.
> 
> Can PyString_FromString() handle a non nul terminated string?

couldn't find in the doc.. but I think it's necessary,
there's no other way it could tell the end ;-)

I'll make the is_printable_array in case the final 0 is missing

thanks,
jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-16 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15  7:29 [PATCHv2 0/3] perf python: Add support to access tracepoint fields Jiri Olsa
2016-07-15  7:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf script python: Fix string vs byte array resolving Jiri Olsa
2016-07-15  7:32   ` Jiri Olsa
2016-07-15 15:30   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-15 15:51   ` Jiri Pirko
2016-07-15 16:02     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-15 16:13       ` Jiri Olsa
2016-07-15 16:37         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-07-15 16:38           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-07-15 17:16         ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-15 17:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-16 15:58     ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2016-07-15  7:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] perf tools: Make is_printable_array global Jiri Olsa
2016-07-15 15:31   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-15  7:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] tools lib api fs: Use base 0 in filename__read_ull Jiri Olsa
2016-07-16 20:45   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2016-07-16 16:11 [PATCHv3 0/3] perf python: Add support to access tracepoint fields Jiri Olsa
2016-07-16 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf script python: Fix string vs byte array resolving Jiri Olsa
2016-07-18 11:44   ` Jiri Pirko

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