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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-12-16 17:24:15 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-17 09:42:44 +0100
commitb7702a2136b5f8e0e186e22cae91aaecf98b418c (patch)
tree79562d989a3760252d50a9e2b6e55138a39a29b6 /tools/perf/util
parent6f3cf440470650b3841d325acacd0c5ea9504c68 (diff)
perf probe: Check new event name
Check new event name is same syntax as a C symbol in perf command. In other words, checking the name is as like as other tracepoint events. This can prevent user to create an event with useless name (e.g. foo|bar, foo*bar). Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> LKML-Reference: <20091216222415.14459.71383.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> [ v2: minor cleanups ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 2ca62154f79..29465d44004 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ static int e_snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
return ret;
}
+/* Check the name is good for event/group */
+static bool check_event_name(const char *name)
+{
+ if (!isalpha(*name) && *name != '_')
+ return false;
+ while (*++name != '\0') {
+ if (!isalpha(*name) && !isdigit(*name) && *name != '_')
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
/* Parse probepoint definition. */
static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
{
@@ -82,6 +94,9 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
ptr = strchr(arg, ':');
if (ptr) /* Group name is not supported yet. */
semantic_error("Group name is not supported yet.");
+ if (!check_event_name(arg))
+ semantic_error("%s is bad for event name -it must "
+ "follow C symbol-naming rule.", arg);
pp->event = strdup(arg);
arg = tmp;
}