| From | Sasha Levin <> | Subject | [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 125/281] perf probe: Add warning message if there is unexpected event name | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:00:21 +0000 |
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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Upstream commit 9f5c6d8777a2d962b0eeacb2a16f37da6bea545b ]
This improve the error message so that user can know event-name error before writing new events to kprobe-events interface.
E.g. ====== #./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc_get_state* Internal error: "malloc_get_state@GLIBC_2" is an invalid event name. Error: Failed to add events. ======
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com> Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com> Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275040665.24652.5188568529237584489.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index 6a6f44dd594b..da778ecba2d3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -2609,6 +2609,14 @@ static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, size_t len, const char *base, out: free(nbase); + + /* Final validation */ + if (ret >= 0 && !is_c_func_name(buf)) { + pr_warning("Internal error: \"%s\" is an invalid event name.\n", + buf); + ret = -EINVAL; + } + return ret; } -- 2.14.1
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