Re: [PATCH 2/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_FULL filter matching forPTR_STRING

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 07:21:40 EST


On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:40:56AM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:59:06PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> >> MATCH_FULL matching for PTR_STRING is not working correctly:
> >>
> >> # echo 'func == vt' > events/bkl/lock_kernel/filter
> >> # echo 1 > events/bkl/lock_kernel/enable
> >> ...
> >> # cat trace
> >> Xorg-1484 [000] 1973.392586: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
> >> gpm-1402 [001] 1974.027740: lock_kernel: ... func=vt_ioctl()
> >>
> >> We should pass to regex.match(..., len) the length (including '\0')
> >> of the source string instead of the length of the pattern string.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch is cool but it seems to also break middle and end
> > matching (at least what was working with end matching :)
> >
>
> No, it won't, unless I miss something.
>
> I changed what value ptr_string passes the length param to match(),
> but this param is not used in match_middle and match_end.
>
> It does break match_front for ptr_string, but that's because
> the mixture of 2 bugs happened to make things right. I can
> sort this out by reordering the 2 patches.


I made a mistake. I meant it breaks match front. As previously it
was taking the pattern length as a parameter and now it takes
the string length to compare.

But well, the things were so broken already that I'm not sure
we need bisectable deltas... :)

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