Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: Fix unique symbol check in kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Wed,  9 Sep 2026 11:29:53 +0200
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> The current regex also matches symbols in modules, which makes the
> test fail on s390 where name_show is present only once in the kernel,
> but also multiple times in modules:
> 
> 000001b1401cdc20 t name_show
> 000001b0c05e6c40 t name_show    [mdev]
> 000001b0c0495f30 t name_show    [i2c_core]
> 
> Fix this by changing the regular expression to only match the function
> name.

Ah, nice catch! I'll add this fixes tag.

Fixes: 03b80ff8023a ("selftests/ftrace: Add new test case which checks non unique symbol")

Thanks,

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc    | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> index bc9514428dba..07b1177c1634 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  SYMBOL='name_show'
>  
>  # We skip this test on kernel where SYMBOL is unique or does not exist.
> -if [ "$(grep -c -E "[[:alnum:]]+ t ${SYMBOL}" /proc/kallsyms)" -le '1' ]; then
> +if [ "$(grep -c -E "[[:alnum:]]+ t ${SYMBOL}$" /proc/kallsyms)" -le '1' ]; then
>  	exit_unsupported
>  fi
>  
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>