tracing: Fix event filters and triggers to handle negative numbers
authorPavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 10:25:34 +0000 (13:25 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 10 Mar 2019 06:17:20 +0000 (07:17 +0100)
commit690e939da71d6b38a04b605300fc05e22ad991a3
treea8e590c74b46d3354b4c6ee199e5641e4d2ce12d
parent51c5318058013f06bd5e85166d60d4dbfb9a2072
tracing: Fix event filters and triggers to handle negative numbers

commit 6a072128d262d2b98d31626906a96700d1fc11eb upstream.

Then tracing syscall exit event it is extremely useful to filter exit
codes equal to some negative value, to react only to required errors.
But negative numbers does not work:

[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# echo "ret == -1" > filter
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# cat filter
ret == -1
        ^
parse_error: Invalid value (did you forget quotes)?

Similar thing happens when setting triggers.

These is a regression in v4.17 introduced by the commit mentioned below,
testing without these commit shows no problem with negative numbers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823102534.7642-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 80765597bc58 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c