On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:24:20 +0100 Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do not segfault if the event cannot be found for some reason and > tep_find_event_by_record() returns NULL. > > No extra warning is added since there are others ("UNKNOWN EVENT") which > already make it clear that something is wrong: > > kworker/u8:0-7 [003] 1.245773: sched_stat_runtime: comm=kworker/u8:... > [UNKNOWN EVENT][UNKNOWN EVENT][UNKNOWN EVENT] > kworker/u8:0-7 [003] 1.245776: sched_switch: kworker/u8:0:7 [120] W... > I wonder if the following would be a better and more robust approach: diff --git a/tracecmd/trace-read.c b/tracecmd/trace-read.c index f7ffb89e..4b27740a 100644 --- a/tracecmd/trace-read.c +++ b/tracecmd/trace-read.c @@ -142,12 +142,15 @@ static struct trace_hash wakeup_hash; static void print_event_name(struct trace_seq *s, struct tep_event *event) { static const char *spaces = " "; /* 20 spaces */ + const char *name; int len; - trace_seq_printf(s, " %s: ", event->name); + name = event ? event->name : "(NULL)"; + + trace_seq_printf(s, " %s: ", name); /* Space out the event names evenly. */ - len = strlen(event->name); + len = strlen(name); if (len < 20) trace_seq_printf(s, "%.*s", 20 - len, spaces); } -- Steve