Re: [RFC 2/3] uprobe: drop isdigit() check in create_trace_uprobe

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 18:58:13 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:21:09 +0300
> Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > It's useless. Before:
> >   [tracing]# echo 'p:test /a:0x0' >> uprobe_events
> >   [tracing]# echo 'p:test a:0x0' >> uprobe_events
> >   -bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory
> >   [tracing]# echo 'p:test 1:0x0' >> uprobe_events
> >   -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> > 
> > After:
> >   [tracing]# echo 'p:test 1:0x0' >> uprobe_events
> >   -bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
> 
> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Actually, this patch seems agnostic to the series. I'll just pull it in
now.

-- Steve

> 
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 4 ----
> >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > index c53485441c88..a74f2d9ff379 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> > @@ -427,10 +427,6 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
> >  		pr_info("Probe point is not specified.\n");
> >  		return -EINVAL;
> >  	}
> > -	if (isdigit(argv[1][0])) {
> > -		pr_info("probe point must be have a filename.\n");
> > -		return -EINVAL;
> > -	}
> >  	arg = strchr(argv[1], ':');
> >  	if (!arg) {
> >  		ret = -EINVAL;  
>