[tip:tracing/urgent] tracing/kprobes: Fix probe parsing

From: tip-bot for Heiko Carstens
Date: Sun Feb 14 2010 - 04:14:41 EST


Commit-ID: a9bb18f36c8056f0712fb28c52c0f85d98438dfb
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a9bb18f36c8056f0712fb28c52c0f85d98438dfb
Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:23:47 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:43:58 +0100

tracing/kprobes: Fix probe parsing

Trying to add a probe like:

echo p:myprobe 0x10000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

will fail since the wrong pointer is passed to strict_strtoul
when trying to convert the address to an unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20100210162346.GA6933@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 6ea90c0..50b1b82 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv)
return -EINVAL;
}
/* an address specified */
- ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[0][2], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
+ ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
if (ret) {
pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
return ret;
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