From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753246AbdF3WFD (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:05:03 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:59032 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753161AbdF3WFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:05:00 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org CFDE922BD9 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=rostedt@goodmis.org Message-Id: <20170630220458.826327319@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:04:04 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , stable@vger.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu , Sabrina Dubroca Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/kprobes: Allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit References: <20170630220402.465621079@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline; filename=0002-tracing-kprobes-Allow-to-create-probe-with-a-module-.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sabrina Dubroca Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a symbol), try to parse a symbol instead. This allows creating a probe such as: p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0 Which is necessary for this command to work: perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer") Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 14 +++++--------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index c129fca6ec99..b53c8d369163 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -707,20 +707,16 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv) pr_info("Probe point is not specified.\n"); return -EINVAL; } - if (isdigit(argv[1][0])) { - /* an address specified */ - ret = kstrtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr); - if (ret) { - pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n"); - return ret; - } - } else { + + /* try to parse an address. if that fails, try to read the + * input as a symbol. */ + if (kstrtoul(argv[1], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr)) { /* a symbol specified */ symbol = argv[1]; /* TODO: support .init module functions */ ret = traceprobe_split_symbol_offset(symbol, &offset); if (ret) { - pr_info("Failed to parse symbol.\n"); + pr_info("Failed to parse either an address or a symbol.\n"); return ret; } if (offset && is_return && -- 2.10.2