This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf probe: Add warning message if there is unexpected event name
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-probe-add-warning-message-if-there-is-unexpected-event-name.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 01:26:46 +0900
Subject: perf probe: Add warning message if there is unexpected event name
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-rt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275040665.24652.5188568529237584489.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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
@@ -2609,6 +2609,14 @@ 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;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-probe-add-warning-message-if-there-is-unexpected-event-name.patch