[PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Ensure --symfs ends with '/'

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Thu Jul 24 2014 - 21:31:57 EST


Minchan reported that perf failed to load vmlinux if --symfs argument
doesn't end with '/' character. So make sure that the symfs always
ends with the '/'.

Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index eb06746b06b2..90723a12e947 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@ static bool symbol__read_kptr_restrict(void)

int symbol__init(void)
{
- const char *symfs;
+ char *symfs;

if (symbol_conf.initialized)
return 0;
@@ -1862,23 +1862,40 @@ int symbol__init(void)
symbol_conf.sym_list_str, "symbol") < 0)
goto out_free_comm_list;

- /*
- * A path to symbols of "/" is identical to ""
- * reset here for simplicity.
- */
- symfs = realpath(symbol_conf.symfs, NULL);
- if (symfs == NULL)
- symfs = symbol_conf.symfs;
- if (strcmp(symfs, "/") == 0)
- symbol_conf.symfs = "";
- if (symfs != symbol_conf.symfs)
- free((void *)symfs);
+ if (*symbol_conf.symfs) {
+ symfs = realpath(symbol_conf.symfs, NULL);
+ if (symfs == NULL)
+ symfs = (char *)symbol_conf.symfs;
+
+ /*
+ * A path to symbols of "/" is identical to ""
+ * reset here for simplicity.
+ */
+ if (strcmp(symfs, "/") == 0)
+ symbol_conf.symfs = "";
+
+ /* ensure symfs ends with '/' */
+ if (symfs[strlen(symfs)-1] != '/') {
+ char *tmp = realloc(symfs, strlen(symfs) + 2);
+ if (tmp == NULL)
+ goto out_free;
+
+ tmp[strlen(tmp)+1] = '\0';
+ tmp[strlen(tmp)] = '/';
+
+ symbol_conf.symfs = tmp;
+ } else {
+ free(symfs);
+ }
+ }

symbol_conf.kptr_restrict = symbol__read_kptr_restrict();

symbol_conf.initialized = true;
return 0;

+out_free:
+ free(symfs);
out_free_comm_list:
strlist__delete(symbol_conf.comm_list);
out_free_dso_list:
--
2.0.0

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