Re: [PATCH 0/3] tracing/kprobes: Fix event generation API etc.

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Wed May 20 2020 - 10:22:43 EST


Hi Steve,

It seems this fixes are not picked up yet.
Would you have any consideration?

Thank you,

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:48:59 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Here are bugfix/cleanup patches for the kprobe tracer, [1/3]
> is a typo fix, [2/3] is fixing boot-time tracer and [3/3] is
> error checking for the new in-kernel kprobe event API.
>
> Tom, I found that your commit 29a154810546 ("tracing: Change
> trace_boot to use kprobe_event interface") broke the boot-time
> tracer's kprobe event because of wrong API usage. Could you
> review it?
>
> I marked [3/3] as a bugfix, because if the loc == NULL,
> __kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start() obviously does not work.
> But it reports actual error at kprobe_event_gen_cmd_end().
> That is not good for developers to debug it.
>
> Thank you,
>
> ---
>
> Masami Hiramatsu (3):
> tracing/kprobes: Fix a double initialization typo
> tracing/boottime: Fix kprobe event API usage
> tracing/kprobes: Reject new event if loc is NULL
>
>
> kernel/trace/trace_boot.c | 20 ++++++++------------
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 8 +++++++-
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>


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