It used to work, but now doesn't:
 # echo > ksym_filter
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
It's caused by 
d954fbf0ff6b5fdfb32350e85a2f15d3db976506
("tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms").
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <
4B3AF1D7.
5040400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 
         * 2: echo 0 > ksym_trace_filter
         * 3: echo "*:---" > ksym_trace_filter
         */
-       if (!buf[0] || !strcmp(buf, "0") ||
-           !strcmp(buf, "*:---")) {
+       if (!input_string[0] || !strcmp(input_string, "0") ||
+           !strcmp(input_string, "*:---")) {
                __ksym_trace_reset();
                ret = 0;
                goto out;