Re: [PATCH] lib tools traceevent: Add back pevent assignment in__pevent_parse_format()
From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Mon Oct 01 2012 - 09:42:13 EST
2012-09-28 (ê), 22:20 -0400, Steven Rostedt:
> Even though with the change of commit commit 2b29175 "tools lib traceevent:
> Carve out events format parsing routine", allowed __pevent_parse_format() to
> parse an event without the need of a pevent handler, the event still needs to
> assign the pevent handed to it.
>
> There's no problem with assigning it if the pevent is NULL, as the event->pevent
> would be NULL without the assignment. But function parsing handlers may be
> assigned to the pevent handler to help in parsing the event. If there's no
> pevent then there would not be any function handlers, but if the pevent
> isn't assigned first before parsing the event, it wont honor the function
> handlers that were assigned.
>
> Worse yet, the current code crashes if an event has a function that it tries
> to parse. For example:
>
> # perf record -e scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> This happens because the scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout event format has the following:
>
> __print_hex(__get_dynamic_array(cmnd), REC->cmd_len)
>
> which hasn't been defined by the pevent code.
??? We have both of __print_hex() and __get_dynamic_array() handler,
please see process_function. In my case, the offending function was
"scsi_trace_parse_cdb".
Other than that, looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Namhyung
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