linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] tracing/probe: Verify alloc_trace

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Date:   Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:30:50 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, mhiramat@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
        bigeasy@...utronix.de, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 5/7] tracing/probe: Verify alloc_trace_*probe() result

Since alloc_trace_*probe() returns -EINVAL only if !event && !group,
it should not happen in trace_*probe_create(). If we catch that case
there is a bug. So use WARN_ON_ONCE() instead of pr_info().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c |    4 ++--
 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c |    3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 5222fd82e7e4..56324c231688 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -693,9 +693,9 @@ static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[])
 	tk = alloc_trace_kprobe(group, event, addr, symbol, offset, maxactive,
 			       argc, is_return);
 	if (IS_ERR(tk)) {
-		pr_info("Failed to allocate trace_probe.(%d)\n",
-			(int)PTR_ERR(tk));
 		ret = PTR_ERR(tk);
+		/* This must return -ENOMEM otherwise there is a bug */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOMEM);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
index 52f033489377..b54137ec7810 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
@@ -514,8 +514,9 @@ static int trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 	tu = alloc_trace_uprobe(group, event, argc, is_return);
 	if (IS_ERR(tu)) {
-		pr_info("Failed to allocate trace_uprobe.(%d)\n", (int)PTR_ERR(tu));
 		ret = PTR_ERR(tu);
+		/* This must return -ENOMEM otherwise there is a bug */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(ret != -ENOMEM);
 		goto fail_address_parse;
 	}
 	tu->offset = offset;