From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() will incorrectly parse the glob filter because it resets the search variable that was setup by filter_parse_regex(). Al Viro reported this: After that call of filter_parse_regex() we could have func_g.search not equal to glob only if glob started with '!' or '*'. In the former case we would've buggered off with -EINVAL (not = 1). In the latter we would've set func_g.search equal to glob + 1, calculated the length of that thing in func_g.len and proceeded to reset func_g.search back to glob. Suppose the glob is e.g. *foo*. We end up with func_g.type = MATCH_MIDDLE_ONLY; func_g.len = 3; func_g.search = "*foo"; Feeding that to ftrace_match_record() will not do anything sane - we will be looking for names containing "*foo" (->len is ignored for that one). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180127031706.GE13338@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Fixes: 3ba009297149f ("ftrace: Introduce ftrace_glob structure") Reported-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index dabd9d167d42..eac9ce2c57a2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -4456,7 +4456,6 @@ unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func(char *glob, struct trace_array *tr, func_g.type = filter_parse_regex(glob, strlen(glob), &func_g.search, ¬); func_g.len = strlen(func_g.search); - func_g.search = glob; /* we do not support '!' for function probes */ if (WARN_ON(not)) -- 2.15.1