Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 2015 23:31:04 -0800 | From | tip-bot for Wang Nan <> | Subject | [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: Fix find_perf_probe_point_from_map( ) which incorrectly returns success |
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Commit-ID: 98d3b258ede2cdac31a2728543f652964e597e79 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/98d3b258ede2cdac31a2728543f652964e597e79 Author: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> AuthorDate: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 13:19:25 +0000 Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CommitDate: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 12:47:52 -0300
perf tools: Fix find_perf_probe_point_from_map() which incorrectly returns success
It is possible that find_perf_probe_point_from_map() fails to find a symbol but still returns 0 because of an small error when coding: find_perf_probe_point_from_map() set 'ret' to error code at first, but also use it to hold return value of kernel_get_symbol_address_by_name().
This patch resets 'ret' to error even kernel_get_symbol_address_by_name() success, so if !sym, the whole function returns error correctly.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446729565-27592-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index b51a8bf..e659c4f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -1905,6 +1905,9 @@ static int find_perf_probe_point_from_map(struct probe_trace_point *tp, sym = __find_kernel_function(addr, &map); } } + + /* ret may has be overwritten so reset it */ + ret = -ENOENT; if (!sym) goto out;
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