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perf list: Robustify event printing routine
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When a43eec3 ("bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper") added
PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT we ended up with a new entry in the event_symbols_sw
array that wasn't initialized, thus set to NULL, fix print_symbol_events()
to check for that case so that we don't crash if this happens again.

  (gdb) bt
  #0  __match_glob (ignore_space=false, pat=<optimized out>, str=<optimized out>) at util/string.c:198
  #1  strglobmatch (str=<optimized out>, pat=pat@entry=0x7fffffffe61d "stall") at util/string.c:252
  #2  0x00000000004993a5 in print_symbol_events (type=1, syms=0x872880 <event_symbols_sw+160>, max=11, name_only=false, event_glob=0x7fffffffe61d "stall")
      at util/parse-events.c:1615
  #3  print_events (event_glob=event_glob@entry=0x7fffffffe61d "stall", name_only=false) at util/parse-events.c:1675
  #4  0x000000000042c79e in cmd_list (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe390, prefix=<optimized out>) at builtin-list.c:68
  #5  0x00000000004788a5 in run_builtin (p=p@entry=0x871758 <commands+120>, argc=argc@entry=2, argv=argv@entry=0x7fffffffe390) at perf.c:370
  #6  0x0000000000420ab0 in handle_internal_command (argv=0x7fffffffe390, argc=2) at perf.c:429
  #7  run_argv (argv=0x7fffffffe110, argcp=0x7fffffffe11c) at perf.c:473
  #8  main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe390) at perf.c:588
  (gdb) p event_symbols_sw[PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT]
  $4 = {symbol = 0x0, alias = 0x0}
  (gdb)

A patch to robustify perf to not segfault when the next counter gets added in
the kernel will follow this one.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
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acmel committed Dec 16, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@ void print_symbol_events(const char *event_glob, unsigned type,

for (i = 0; i < max; i++, syms++) {

if (event_glob != NULL &&
if (event_glob != NULL && syms->symbol != NULL &&
!(strglobmatch(syms->symbol, event_glob) ||
(syms->alias && strglobmatch(syms->alias, event_glob))))
continue;
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