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From: Heiko Carstens on 10 Feb 2010 11:30
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com>

Trying to add a probe like

echo p:myprobe 0x10000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

will fail since the wrong pointer is passed to strict_strtoul
when trying to convert the address to an unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com>
---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc,
return -EINVAL;
}
/* an address specified */
- ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[0][2], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
+ ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
if (ret) {
pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
return ret;
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