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    uprobe: Find last occurrence of ':' when parsing uprobe PATH:OFFSET · 6496bb72
    Kenny Yu authored
    Previously, `create_trace_uprobe` found the *first* occurence
    of the ':' character when parsing `PATH:OFFSET` for a uprobe.
    However, if the path contains a ':' character, then the function
    would parse the path incorrectly. Even worse, if the path does not
    exist, the subsequent call to `kern_path()` would set `ret` to
    `ENOENT`, leading to very cryptic errno values in user space.
    
    The fix is to find the *last* occurence of ':'.
    
    How to repro:: The write fails with "No such file or directory", suggesting
    incorrectly that the `uprobe_events` file does not exist.
    
      $ mkdir testing && cd testing
      $ cp /bin/bash .
      $ cp /bin/bash ./bash:with:colon
      $ echo "p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_0x6 /root/testing/bash:0x6" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events     # this works
      $ echo "p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_with_colon_0x6 /root/testing/bash:with:colon:0x6" >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events     # this doesn't
      -bash: echo: write error: No such file or directory
    
    With the patch:
    
      $ echo "p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_0x6 /root/testing/bash:0x6" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events     # this still works
      $ echo "p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_with_colon_0x6 /root/testing/bash:with:colon:0x6" >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events     # this works now too!
      $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
      p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_0x6 /root/testing/bash:0x0000000000000006
      p:uprobes/p__root_testing_bash_with_colon_0x6 /root/testing/bash:with:colon:0x0000000000000006
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170113165834.4081016-1-kennyyu@fb.comSigned-off-by: default avatarKenny Yu <kennyyu@fb.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    6496bb72
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