Re: [PATCH 4/4] tracing/filters: Fix MATCH_EBD_ONLY filter matching

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 10:14:33 EST


On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:59 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> For '*foo' pattern, we should allow any string ending with
> 'foo', but tracing filter incorrectly disallows strings
> matching regex expression ".*foo.*foo".
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 +++--
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> index bd492ce..9f96339 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
> @@ -276,9 +276,10 @@ static int regex_match_middle(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
>
> static int regex_match_end(char *str, struct regex *r, int len)
> {
> - char *ptr = strstr(str, r->pattern);
> + int strlen = len - 1;
>
> - if (ptr && (ptr[r->len] == 0))
> + if (strlen >= r->len &&
> + !memcmp(str + strlen - r->len, r->pattern, r->len))

Please use memcmp() == 0, I've seen too many bugs with !*cmp as well as
with *cmp, because humans tend to think instinctively when reading this
that ! is not a match. With "== 0" we think that "==" is a match and
"!=" is a miss.

Thanks,


-- Steve

> return 1;
> return 0;
> }


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