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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-06-17 14:32:53 -0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-07-31 07:28:26 +0200
commitb5b7d3a8d33af2e98159c78f81e9330395b58c9f (patch)
treecbfe4c44f6b66390c5db070ffa3a9ca4482518f2 /tools/perf
parent11a6dd0034b6fc3a55ffe1382262797f4aec9f5d (diff)
perf evsel: Make perf_evsel__name() accept a NULL argument
[ Upstream commit fdbdd7e8580eac9bdafa532746c865644d125e34 ] In which case it simply returns "unknown", like when it can't figure out the evsel->name value. This makes this code more robust and fixes a problem in 'perf trace' where a NULL evsel was being passed to a routine that only used the evsel for printing its name when a invalid syscall id was passed. Reported-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-f30ztaasku3z935cn3ak3h53@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 0cf6f537f980..3ab81e8e079e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ const char *perf_evsel__name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
{
char bf[128];
+ if (!evsel)
+ goto out_unknown;
+
if (evsel->name)
return evsel->name;
@@ -623,7 +626,10 @@ const char *perf_evsel__name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)
evsel->name = strdup(bf);
- return evsel->name ?: "unknown";
+ if (evsel->name)
+ return evsel->name;
+out_unknown:
+ return "unknown";
}
const char *perf_evsel__group_name(struct perf_evsel *evsel)