Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 4.14 merge window.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index c129fca6ec99..b53c8d369163 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -707,20 +707,16 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
 		pr_info("Probe point is not specified.\n");
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
-	if (isdigit(argv[1][0])) {
-		/* an address specified */
-		ret = kstrtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
-		if (ret) {
-			pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n");
-			return ret;
-		}
-	} else {
+
+	/* try to parse an address. if that fails, try to read the
+	 * input as a symbol. */
+	if (kstrtoul(argv[1], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr)) {
 		/* a symbol specified */
 		symbol = argv[1];
 		/* TODO: support .init module functions */
 		ret = traceprobe_split_symbol_offset(symbol, &offset);
 		if (ret) {
-			pr_info("Failed to parse symbol.\n");
+			pr_info("Failed to parse either an address or a symbol.\n");
 			return ret;
 		}
 		if (offset && is_return &&