FAILED: patch "[PATCH] perf probe: Fix ppc64 'perf probe add events failed' case" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

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thanks,

greg k-h

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From 4624f199327a704dd1069aca1c3cadb8f2a28c6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zechuan Chen <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:13:38 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] perf probe: Fix ppc64 'perf probe add events failed' case

Because of commit bf794bf52a80c627 ("powerpc/kprobes: Fix kallsyms lookup across powerpc ABIv1 and ABIv2"), in ppc64 ABIv1, our perf command eliminates the need to use the prefix "." at the symbol name.

But when the command "perf probe -a schedule" is executed on ppc64 ABIv1, it obtains two symbol address information through /proc/kallsyms, for example:

cat /proc/kallsyms | grep -w schedule
c000000000657020 T .schedule
c000000000d4fdb8 D schedule

The symbol "D schedule" is not a function symbol, and perf will print:
"p:probe/schedule _text+13958584"Failed to write event: Invalid argument

Therefore, when searching symbols from map and adding probe point for them, a symbol type check is added. If the type of symbol is not a function, skip it.

index b2a02c9ab8ea..a834918a0a0d 100644
@@ -3083,6 +3083,9 @@ static int find_probe_trace_events_from_map(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
 	for (j = 0; j < num_matched_functions; j++) {
 		sym = syms[j];
 
+		if (sym->type != STT_FUNC)
+			continue;
+
 		/* There can be duplicated symbols in the map */
 		for (i = 0; i < j; i++)
 			if (sym->start == syms[i]->start) {