From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "zhangwei(Jovi)" , Frederic Weisbecker , srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Steven Rostedt Subject: [ 073/103] uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:26:24 -0700 Message-Id: <20130723220427.764210050@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130723220418.532514378@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130723220418.532514378@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "zhangwei(Jovi)" commit fa44063f9ef163c3a4c8d8c0465bb8a056b42035 upstream. When wrong argument is passed into uprobe_events it does not return an error: [root@jovi tracing]# echo 'p:myprobe /bin/bash' > uprobe_events [root@jovi tracing]# The proper response is: [root@jovi tracing]# echo 'p:myprobe /bin/bash' > uprobe_events -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51B964FF.5000106@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c @@ -283,8 +283,10 @@ static int create_trace_uprobe(int argc, return -EINVAL; } arg = strchr(argv[1], ':'); - if (!arg) + if (!arg) { + ret = -EINVAL; goto fail_address_parse; + } *arg++ = '\0'; filename = argv[1];