From: Li Zefan MATCH_FRONT_ONLY actually is a full matching: # ./perf record -R -f -a -e lock:lock_acquire \ --filter 'name ~rcu_*' sleep 1 # ./perf trace (no output) We should pass the length of the pattern string to strncmp(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan LKML-Reference: <4B4E8721.5090301@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 50504cb..11c3973 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ static int regex_match_full(char *str, struct regex *r, int len) static int regex_match_front(char *str, struct regex *r, int len) { - if (strncmp(str, r->pattern, len) == 0) + if (strncmp(str, r->pattern, r->len) == 0) return 1; return 0; } -- 1.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/