tracing/probes: Allow eprobe to use variable without $ prefix

The commit 69efd863a7 ("tracing/eprobes: Allow use of BTF names
to dereference pointers") allows eprobe to use event field without
"$" prefix when it is used with typecast, it is natual to allow it
without typecast.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271358117.1176915.13520279547897961254.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2026-07-02 21:12:40 +09:00
parent ffd9dada63
commit 427c240a02
3 changed files with 13 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -1341,7 +1341,17 @@ parse_probe_arg(char *arg, const struct fetch_type *type,
ret = handle_typecast(arg, pcode, end, ctx);
break;
default:
if (isalpha(arg[0]) || arg[0] == '_') { /* BTF variable */
if (isalpha(arg[0]) || arg[0] == '_') {
/* BTF variable or event field*/
if (ctx->flags & TPARG_FL_TEVENT) {
ret = parse_trace_event(arg, *pcode, ctx);
if (ret < 0) {
trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset,
NO_EVENT_FIELD);
return -EINVAL;
}
break;
}
if (!tparg_is_function_entry(ctx->flags) &&
!tparg_is_function_return(ctx->flags)) {
trace_probe_log_err(ctx->offset, NOSUP_BTFARG);

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@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ extern int traceprobe_define_arg_fields(struct trace_event_call *event_call,
C(NO_PTR_STRCT, "This is not a pointer to union/structure."), \
C(NOSUP_DAT_ARG, "Non pointer structure/union argument is not supported."),\
C(BAD_HYPHEN, "Failed to parse single hyphen. Forgot '>'?"), \
C(NO_EVENT_FIELD, "This event field is not found."), \
C(NO_BTF_FIELD, "This field is not found."), \
C(BAD_BTF_TID, "Failed to get BTF type info."),\
C(BAD_TYPE4STR, "This type does not fit for string."),\

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ check_error() { # command-with-error-pos-by-^
check_error 'e ^a.' # NO_EVENT_INFO
check_error 'e ^.b' # NO_EVENT_INFO
check_error 'e ^a.b' # BAD_ATTACH_EVENT
check_error 'e syscalls/sys_enter_openat ^foo' # BAD_ATTACH_ARG
check_error 'e syscalls/sys_enter_openat ^foo' # NO_EVENT_FIELD
check_error 'e:^/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # NO_GROUP_NAME
check_error 'e:^12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # GROUP_TOO_LONG
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ check_error 'e:^ syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # NO_EVENT_NAME
check_error 'e:foo/^12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # EVENT_TOO_LONG
check_error 'e:foo/^bar.1 syscalls/sys_enter_openat' # BAD_EVENT_NAME
check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat arg=^dfd' # BAD_FETCH_ARG
check_error 'e:foo/bar syscalls/sys_enter_openat arg=^$foo' # BAD_ATTACH_ARG
if grep -q '<attached-group>\.<attached-event>.*\[if <filter>\]' README; then