3.2.70-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2cf30dc180cea808077f003c5116388183e54f9e upstream. When the following filter is used it causes a warning to trigger: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" > events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter ((dev==1)blocks==2) ^ parse_error: No error ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1223 at kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c:1640 replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990() Modules linked in: bnep lockd grace bluetooth ... CPU: 3 PID: 1223 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 4.1.0-rc3-test+ #450 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01 v02.05 05/07/2012 0000000000000668 ffff8800c106bc98 ffffffff816ed4f9 ffff88011ead0cf0 0000000000000000 ffff8800c106bcd8 ffffffff8107fb07 ffffffff8136b46c ffff8800c7d81d48 ffff8800d4c2bc00 ffff8800d4d4f920 00000000ffffffea Call Trace: [<ffffffff816ed4f9>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x6e [<ffffffff8107fb07>] warn_slowpath_common+0x97/0xe0 [<ffffffff8136b46c>] ? _kstrtoull+0x2c/0x80 [<ffffffff8107fb6a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff81159065>] replace_preds+0x3c5/0x990 [<ffffffff811596b2>] create_filter+0x82/0xb0 [<ffffffff81159944>] apply_event_filter+0xd4/0x180 [<ffffffff81152bbf>] event_filter_write+0x8f/0x120 [<ffffffff811db2a8>] __vfs_write+0x28/0xe0 [<ffffffff811dda43>] ? __sb_start_write+0x53/0xf0 [<ffffffff812e51e0>] ? security_file_permission+0x30/0xc0 [<ffffffff811dc408>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1b0 [<ffffffff811dc72f>] SyS_write+0x4f/0xb0 [<ffffffff816f5217>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a ---[ end trace e11028bd95818dcd ]--- Worse yet, reading the error message (the filter again) it says that there was no error, when there clearly was. The issue is that the code that checks the input does not check for balanced ops. That is, having an op between a closed parenthesis and the next token. This would only cause a warning, and fail out before doing any real harm, but it should still not caues a warning, and the error reported should work: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo "((dev==1)blocks==2)" > events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat events/ext4/ext4_truncate_exit/filter ((dev==1)blocks==2) ^ parse_error: Meaningless filter expression And give no kernel warning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150615175025.7e809215@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop the check for OP_NOT, which we don't have] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -1343,19 +1343,25 @@ static int check_preds(struct filter_par { int n_normal_preds = 0, n_logical_preds = 0; struct postfix_elt *elt; + int cnt = 0; list_for_each_entry(elt, &ps->postfix, list) { - if (elt->op == OP_NONE) + if (elt->op == OP_NONE) { + cnt++; continue; + } if (elt->op == OP_AND || elt->op == OP_OR) { n_logical_preds++; + cnt--; continue; } + cnt--; n_normal_preds++; + WARN_ON_ONCE(cnt < 0); } - if (!n_normal_preds || n_logical_preds >= n_normal_preds) { + if (cnt != 1 || !n_normal_preds || n_logical_preds >= n_normal_preds) { parse_error(ps, FILT_ERR_INVALID_FILTER, 0); return -EINVAL; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html