[PATCH 29/35] trace/kprobes: Add back warning about offset in return probes

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme at kernel.org
Tue Mar 7 06:38:19 AEDT 2017


From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt at goodmis.org>

Let's not remove the warning about offsets and return probes when the
offset is invalid.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227115204.00f92846@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 18775ef182f8..2b7d0dd938ba 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -695,6 +695,11 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
 			pr_info("Failed to parse symbol.\n");
 			return ret;
 		}
+		if (offset && is_return &&
+		    !arch_function_offset_within_entry(offset)) {
+			pr_info("Given offset is not valid for return probe.\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 	}
 	argc -= 2; argv += 2;
 
-- 
2.9.3



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