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 wrong event name. Error: Failed to add events. ====== Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 b7aaf9b2294d..c0067950e56f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -2625,6 +2625,14 @@ 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 wrong event name.\n", + buf); + ret = -EINVAL; + } + return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html