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Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Fix event filters and triggers to handle negative numbers
Date:   Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:25:34 +0300
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Then tracing syscall exit event it is extremely useful to filter exit
codes equal to some negative value, to react only to required errors.
But negative numbers does not work:

[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# echo "ret == -1" > filter
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# cat filter
ret == -1
        ^
parse_error: Invalid value (did you forget quotes)?

Similar thing happens when setting triggers.

These is a regression in v4.17 introduced by the commit mentioned below,
testing without these commit shows no problem with negative numbers.

Fixes: 80765597bc58 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
index 84a65173b1e9..2ba449292561 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,7 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data,
 		/* go past the last quote */
 		i++;
 
-	} else if (isdigit(str[i])) {
+	} else if (isdigit(str[i]) || str[i] == '-') {
 
 		/* Make sure the field is not a string */
 		if (is_string_field(field)) {
@@ -1312,6 +1312,9 @@ static int parse_pred(const char *str, void *data,
 			goto err_free;
 		}
 
+		if (str[i] == '-')
+			i++;
+
 		/* We allow 0xDEADBEEF */
 		while (isalnum(str[i]))
 			i++;
-- 
2.17.1