From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c6aab66a728b6518772c74bd9dff66e1a1c652fd ] Since the commit 6a13a0d7b4d1 ("ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events") introduced to show the instance number of kretprobe events, the length of the 1st format of the kprobe event will not 1, but it can be longer. This caused a parser error in perf-probe. Skip the length check the 1st format of the kprobe event to accept this instance number. Without this fix: # perf probe -a vfs_read%return Added new event: probe:vfs_read__return (on vfs_read%return) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:vfs_read__return -aR sleep 1 # perf probe -l Semantic error :Failed to parse event name: r16:probe/vfs_read__return Error: Failed to show event list. And with this fixes: # perf probe -a vfs_read%return ... # perf probe -l probe:vfs_read__return (on vfs_read%return) Fixes: 6a13a0d7b4d1 ("ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events") Reported-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207587 Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/158877535215.26469.1113127926699134067.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index 91cab5f669d2..92b07be0b48b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -1757,8 +1757,7 @@ int parse_probe_trace_command(const char *cmd, struct probe_trace_event *tev) fmt1_str = strtok_r(argv0_str, ":", &fmt); fmt2_str = strtok_r(NULL, "/", &fmt); fmt3_str = strtok_r(NULL, " \t", &fmt); - if (fmt1_str == NULL || strlen(fmt1_str) != 1 || fmt2_str == NULL - || fmt3_str == NULL) { + if (fmt1_str == NULL || fmt2_str == NULL || fmt3_str == NULL) { semantic_error("Failed to parse event name: %s\n", argv[0]); ret = -EINVAL; goto out; -- 2.25.1