Re: [PATCH v3 12/33] tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 11:52:26 EST


On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 08:23 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 08:33:17AM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 12:27 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 02:59:52PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > > > Variables set as above can be used by being referenced from another
> > > > event, as described in a subsequent patch.
> > >
> > > That means, a variable should be unique (in a tracing instance at least).
> > >
> >
> > Not exactly - I thought it would be too restrictive to force users to
> > come up with names that would be unique across an instance, so made them
> > unique to events. So users can use the same variable name for triggers
> > on multiple events, and in cases where there are multiple events with
> > the same name, use the fully-qualified subsys.event_name.variable_name
> > name to disambiguate them. If there is only one event with the given
> > name, thus no ambiguity, specifying the bare variable name suffices.
> > Again the intent is to make the common case as simple as possible, but
> > allow for more complex cases without requiring naming gymnastics from
> > the user.
>
> Agreed. Thanks for the explanation.
>
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > > > +static int parse_var_defs(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data)
> > > > +{
> > > > + char *s, *str, *var_name, *field_str;
> > > > + unsigned int i, j, n_vars = 0;
> > > > + int ret = 0;
> > > > +
> > > > + for (i = 0; i < hist_data->attrs->n_assignments; i++) {
> > > > + str = hist_data->attrs->assignment_str[i];
> > > > + for (j = 0; j < TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX; j++) {
> > > > + field_str = strsep(&str, ",");
> > > > + if (!field_str)
> > > > + break;
> > > > +
> > > > + var_name = strsep(&field_str, "=");
> > > > + if (!var_name || !field_str) {
> > > > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > > > + goto free;
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + s = kstrdup(var_name, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > + if (!s) {
> > > > + ret = -ENOMEM;
> > > > + goto free;
> > > > + }
> > > > + hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[n_vars] = s;
> > > > +
> > > > + s = kstrdup(field_str, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > + if (!s) {
> > > > + ret = -ENOMEM;
> > > > + goto free;
> > >
> > > It seems that it might leak the copy of var_name here..
> > >
> >
> > Unless I'm missing something, the free_var_defs() should handle this
> > case too...
>
> But the var_defs.n_vars was not increased at this point.
>

Yep. Got it, thanks.

Tom

> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> > >
> > > > + }
> > > > + hist_data->attrs->var_defs.expr[n_vars++] = s;
> > > > +
> > > > + hist_data->attrs->var_defs.n_vars = n_vars;
> > > > +
> > > > + if (n_vars == TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX)
> > > > + goto free;
> > > > + }
> > > > + }
> > > > +
> > > > + return ret;
> > > > + free:
> > > > + free_var_defs(hist_data);
> > > > +
> > > > + return ret;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> >
> >