Re: [RFC] apparent bogosity in unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func()

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 03:17:06 +0000
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> It contains something very odd:
> 
>                 func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(glob, strlen(glob),
>                                                  &func_g.search, &not);
>                 func_g.len = strlen(func_g.search);
>                 func_g.search = glob;
> 
>                 /* we do not support '!' for function probes */
>                 if (WARN_ON(not))
>                         return -EINVAL;
> 
> What the hell is the last assignment for?  After that call of
> filter_parse_regex() we could have func_g.search not equal to glob
> only if glob started with '!' or '*'.  In the former case we would've
> buggered off with -EINVAL (not = 1).  In the latter we would've set
> func_g.search equal to glob + 1, calculated the length of that thing
> in func_g.len and proceeded to reset func_g.search back to glob.

Ah, right. It must be a bug! func_g.search should be assigned in
filter_parse_regex(), and it should be "glob" without "!" if
it is MATCH_GLOB. Of course above assignment should be removed.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>