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 4.4-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-4.4 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 Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 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 @@ -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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/perf-probe-add-warning-message-if-there-is-unexpected-event-name.patch