Then tracing syscall exit event it is extremely useful to filter exit
codes equal to some negative value, to react only to required errors.
But negative numbers does not work:
[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# echo "ret == -1" > filter
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[root@snorch sys_exit_read]# cat filter
ret == -1
        ^
parse_error: Invalid value (did you forget quotes)?
Similar thing happens when setting triggers.
These is a regression in v4.17 introduced by the commit mentioned below,
testing without these commit shows no problem with negative numbers.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180823102534.7642-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 80765597bc58 ("tracing: Rewrite filter logic to be simpler and faster")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
 
                /* go past the last quote */
                i++;
 
-       } else if (isdigit(str[i])) {
+       } else if (isdigit(str[i]) || str[i] == '-') {
 
                /* Make sure the field is not a string */
                if (is_string_field(field)) {
                        goto err_free;
                }
 
+               if (str[i] == '-')
+                       i++;
+
                /* We allow 0xDEADBEEF */
                while (isalnum(str[i]))
                        i++;