Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobes: allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:38:30 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:24:42 +0200
> Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
> > given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
> > symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.
> > 
> > This allows creating a probe such as:
> > 
> >     p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0
> > 
> > Which is necessary for this command to work:
> > 
> >     perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive
> >   
> 
> Ah, I forgot that case.
> Nice catch!
> 
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks Masami,

I can take this. Should this go to stable?

-- Steve