The patch titled Subject: samples/kretprobe: fix the wrong type has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@xxxxxxx> Subject: samples/kretprobe: fix the wrong type The regs_return_value() returns "unsigned long" or "long" value. But the retval is int type now, it may cause overflow, the log may becomes: ................. [ 2911.078869] do_brk returned -2003877888 and took 4620 ns to execute ................ This patch converts the retval to "unsigned long" type, and fixes the overflow issue. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464143083-3877-4-git-send-email-shijie.huang@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie.huang@xxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c~samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c --- a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c~samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type +++ a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c @@ -55,14 +55,14 @@ static int entry_handler(struct kretprob */ static int ret_handler(struct kretprobe_instance *ri, struct pt_regs *regs) { - int retval = regs_return_value(regs); + unsigned long retval = regs_return_value(regs); struct my_data *data = (struct my_data *)ri->data; s64 delta; ktime_t now; now = ktime_get(); delta = ktime_to_ns(ktime_sub(now, data->entry_stamp)); - pr_info("%s returned %d and took %lld ns to execute\n", + pr_info("%s returned %lu and took %lld ns to execute\n", func_name, retval, (long long)delta); return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shijie.huang@xxxxxxx are samples-kprobe-convert-the-printk-to-pr_info-pr_err.patch samples-jprobe-convert-the-printk-to-pr_info-pr_err.patch samples-kretprobe-convert-the-printk-to-pr_info-pr_err.patch samples-kretprobe-fix-the-wrong-type.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html