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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:

> Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Ingo,
> >
> > Please pull the tracing/fixes branch that can be found at:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
> > tracing/fixes
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Frederic
> > ---
> >
> > Frederic Weisbecker (1):
> > tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling
> >
> >
> > kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > ---
> > From 12e22dfaaee46f70762beb1982a7b86a68317b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:00:04 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] tracing/kprobes: Fix field creation's bad error handling
> > Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> >
> > When we define the common event fields in kprobe, we invert the error
> > handling and return immediately in case of success. Then we omit
> > to define specific kprobes fields (ip and nargs), and specific
> > kretprobes fields (func, ret_ip, nargs). And we only define them
> > when we fail to create common fields.
> >
> > The most visible consequence is that we can't create filter for
> > k(ret)probes specific fields.
> >
> > This patch re-invert the success/error handling to fix it.
> >
> > Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
>
> Thanks for fix that.
>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
>
>
> Ingo, I think this should go to tip:urgent.

Will apply, thanks guys!

Ingo


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