Re: [PATCH v5 01/10] perf tools: add parse events handle error

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 09:07:09 EST


On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:34:39PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Parse event error handling may overwrite one error string with another
> creating memory leaks. Introduce a helper routine that warns about
> multiple error messages as well as avoiding the memory leak.
>
> A reproduction of this problem can be seen with:
> perf stat -e c/c/
> After this change this produces:
> WARNING: multiple event parsing errors
> event syntax error: 'c/c/'
> \___ unknown term
>
> valid terms: event,filter_rem,filter_opc0,edge,filter_isoc,filter_tid,filter_loc,filter_nc,inv,umask,filter_opc1,tid_en,thresh,filter_all_op,filter_not_nm,filter_state,filter_nm,config,config1,config2,name,period,percore
> Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events
>
> Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]
>
> -e, --event <event> event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
jirka