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* [PATCH] tracing: fprobe-event: Sanitize wildcard for fprobe event name
@ 2025-08-16 14:10 Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
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From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) @ 2025-08-16 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Rostedt
  Cc: linux-trace-kernel, linux-kernel, mhiramat, Mathieu Desnoyers,
	Menglong Dong, Ryan Chung

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.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@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.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 = '_';
 }
 


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