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authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2026-05-25 11:21:14 +0900
committerMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2026-05-30 22:45:50 +0900
commit85e0f27dd1396307913ffc5745b0c05137e9beac (patch)
tree6b48609115bacf4a9168ecffcfd875741c0a0646
parente7ae89a0c97ce2b68b0983cd01eda67cf373517d (diff)
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tracing/probes: Point the error offset correctly for eprobe argument error
Fix to point the error offset correctly for eprobe argument error. In the cleanup commit 1b8b0cd754cd ("tracing/probes: Move event parameter fetching code to common parser"), due to incorrect backward compatibility aimed at conforming to the test specifications, the error location was set to 0 when a non-existent formal parameter was specified for Eprobe. However, this should be corrected in both the test and the implementation to point correct error position. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177967567399.209006.1451571244515632097.stgit@devnote2/ Fixes: 1b8b0cd754cd ("tracing/probes: Move event parameter fetching code to common parser") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_probe.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/eprobes_syntax_errors.tc2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index e0d3a0da26af..44c22d4e7881 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -962,8 +962,6 @@ static int parse_probe_vars(char *orig_arg, const struct fetch_type *t,
code->op = FETCH_OP_COMM;
return 0;
}
- /* backward compatibility */
- ctx->offset = 0;
goto inval;
}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/eprobes_syntax_errors.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/eprobes_syntax_errors.tc
index 4f5e8c665156..2a680c086047 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/eprobes_syntax_errors.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/eprobes_syntax_errors.tc
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ check_error 'e:foo/^123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
check_error 'e:foo/^bar.1 syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # BAD_EVENT_NAME
check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat arg=^dfd' # BAD_FETCH_ARG
-check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat ^arg=$foo' # BAD_ATTACH_ARG
+check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat arg=^$foo' # BAD_ATTACH_ARG
if grep -q '<attached-group>\.<attached-event>.*\[if <filter>\]' README; then
check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat if ^' # NO_EP_FILTER