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;
}
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