If the trace for read is larger than 4096, the return value sz will be 4096. This results in off-by-one error on buf.
static char buf[4096]; ssize_t sz; sz = read(trace_fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); if (sz > 0) { buf[sz] = 0; puts(buf); } Signed-off-by: Chang-Hsien Tsai <luke...@gmail.com> --- samples/bpf/bpf_load.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c b/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c index eae7b635343d..d4da90070b58 100644 --- a/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c +++ b/samples/bpf/bpf_load.c @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ void read_trace_pipe(void) static char buf[4096]; ssize_t sz; - sz = read(trace_fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); + sz = read(trace_fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1); if (sz > 0) { buf[sz] = 0; puts(buf); -- 2.17.1