From fa73b411b41b050e212a20fc33ab45f2eb781c24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 19:45:04 +0900
Subject: perf probe: Fix to show correct error string

commit 44a56040a0037a845d5fa218dffde464579f0cab upstream.

Fix perf probe to show correct error string when it
fails to delete an event. The write(2) returns -1
if failed, and errno stores real error number.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111004104504.14591.41266.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'tools')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 1c7bfa5fe0a8..eb25900e2211 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -1956,8 +1956,10 @@ static int __del_trace_probe_event(int fd, struct str_node *ent)
 
 	pr_debug("Writing event: %s\n", buf);
 	ret = write(fd, buf, strlen(buf));
-	if (ret < 0)
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		ret = -errno;
 		goto error;
+	}
 
 	printf("Remove event: %s\n", ent->s);
 	return 0;
-- 
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