Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:54:14 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:10:17 +0100
> > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> > > got it crashed when clearing the filter via 'echo > filter'  
> > 
> > Awesome. I'll go and test this out. Thanks!
> > 
> > Hmm, could you pull my tree and test my branch: ftrace/core. I may have
> > already fixed this but haven't posted the latest (which I'll do before
> > pushing to next).  
> 
> I couldn't apply your patches from mailbox so I used your ftrace/core already
>

Jiri, If you apply the below, does it fix it for you?

-- Steve

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index a5a131ec3c9c..4099e141188c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1498,11 +1498,14 @@ static int process_preds(struct trace_event_call *call,
 		return ret;
 	}
 
-	prog = predicate_parse(filter_string, nr_parens, nr_preds,
+	if (!nr_preds) {
+		prog = NULL;
+	} else {
+		prog = predicate_parse(filter_string, nr_parens, nr_preds,
 			       parse_pred, call, pe);
-	if (IS_ERR(prog))
-		return PTR_ERR(prog);
-
+		if (IS_ERR(prog))
+			return PTR_ERR(prog);
+	}
 	rcu_assign_pointer(filter->prog, prog);
 	return 0;
 }