4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> [ 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <[email protected]> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Clarke <[email protected]> Cc: bhargavb <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275040665.24652.5188568529237584489.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -2349,6 +2349,14 @@ static int get_new_event_name(char *buf, 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; }
