linux-kernel - [PATCH] tracing: fprobe-event: Sanitize wildcard for fprobe event name

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Message-ID: <175535345114.282990.12294108192847938710.stgit@devnote2>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 23:10:51 +0900
From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mhiramat@...nel.org,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Menglong Dong <menglong8.dong@...il.com>,
	Ryan Chung <seokwoo.chung130@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: fprobe-event: Sanitize wildcard for fprobe event name

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Fprobe event accepts wildcards for the target functions, but unless user
specifies its event name, it makes an event with the wildcards.

  /sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'f mutex*' >> dynamic_events
  /sys/kernel/tracing # cat dynamic_events
  f:fprobes/mutex*__entry mutex*
  /sys/kernel/tracing # ls events/fprobes/
  enable         filter         mutex*__entry

To fix this, replace the wildcard ('*') with an underscore.

Fixes: 334e5519c375 ("tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
 kernel/trace/trace.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 1dbf1d3cf2f1..5a6688832da8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -2204,7 +2204,7 @@ static inline bool is_good_system_name(const char *name)
 static inline void sanitize_event_name(char *name)
 {
 	while (*name++ != '\0')
-		if (*name == ':' || *name == '.')
+		if (*name == ':' || *name == '.' || *name == '*')
 			*name = '_';
 }