On Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:12:18 -0400, Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
>
> The checkbashism is giving a false positive to the kprobe test of:
>
>   ($"foo" should be eval_gettext "foo"):
>   if [ "$(grep -c -E "[[:alnum:]]+ t ${SYMBOL}$" /proc/kallsyms)" -le '1' ]; 
> then
>
> This is because it sees the $" at the end of the grep as a bash symbol.
> Instead, escape the '$' with a backslash as it is within quotes and that
> '$' is for grep to process an end of line character and not a bash
> variable.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Fixes: d22c3e0088e85 ("selftests/ftrace: Fix unique symbol check in 
> kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

Oops, good catch!

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

Shuah, can you pick this?

Thanks,

> ---
>  .../selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc    | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git 
> a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> index 03eb9e70b438..f8e18ea8c268 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_non_uniq_symbol.tc
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  SYMBOL='init_once'
>  
>  # We skip this test on kernel where SYMBOL is unique or does not exist.
> -if [ "$(grep -c -E "[[:alnum:]]+ t ${SYMBOL}$" /proc/kallsyms)" -le '1' ]; 
> then
> +if [ "$(grep -c -E "[[:alnum:]]+ t ${SYMBOL}\$" /proc/kallsyms)" -le '1' ]; 
> then
>       exit_unsupported
>  fi
>  
>

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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