[PATCH -tip 3/3] perf probe: Check new event name

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Check new event name is same syntax as c symbol in perf command.
In other words, checking the name is as like as other tracepoint
events.
This can prevent user to create an event with useless name (e.g.
foo|bar, foo*bar).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 2ca6215..6fca3b6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ static int e_snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* Check the name is good for event/group */
+static bool good_event_name(const char *name)
+{
+	if (!isalpha(*name) && *name != '_')
+		return false;
+	while (*++name != '\0')
+		if (!isalpha(*name) && !isdigit(*name) && *name != '_')
+			return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
 /* Parse probepoint definition. */
 static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
 {
@@ -82,6 +93,9 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
 		ptr = strchr(arg, ':');
 		if (ptr)	/* Group name is not supported yet. */
 			semantic_error("Group name is not supported yet.");
+		if (!good_event_name(arg))
+			semantic_error("%s is bad for event name -it must "
+				       "follow C symbol-naming rule.", arg);
 		pp->event = strdup(arg);
 		arg = tmp;
 	}


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com