From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CA7AC21B191; Sat, 30 May 2026 18:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780166475; cv=none; b=rO5FIYp9CIYKjXWxbjSLU2hE5KQEBb8sm8ELnx/8KPZZXCoTbJofgnQRArufOo34sEiFgAgBwgo4SHy8i/B4RPs5zr2jXoJlTyy9XtiOyx9Jjj+CTgpJf/1kWyIsT8dqBdW8OYjVsfGx8b+e5VI09paFU4j9ygp96MjgRHDx2co= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1780166475; c=relaxed/simple; bh=f4TlGzUUvwj8vdR2PpKhMmX2h8jyAnuuP4E4quJoSQY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=aMJkI3tQEZp60Lw/tnf9+cCftW08CNP/IoHupiD1XKVmlBDuMY/+FugrMEP2uNpWa6wh89aSgBsh5efVW54nUTVIBjSCSFYp2Iyews7qOq9ge5L8IFdirHSs1wlxb9MWuU0cvFv5sqbRGO4moPrxaIqRx1TltlXWj3rcb3nTNEg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=YR/ULmrp; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="YR/ULmrp" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19E451F00893; Sat, 30 May 2026 18:41:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1780166474; bh=69Mom6/04XiZvpFkvtXlMD5TuLOIU2tXrdQ8b9Tr7RE=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=YR/ULmrpmPL4rnloaDXxIwLwW+GcbQ1k7nar5LUsrzwfpkMNVXDh5yqpDji3shGl6 6+NTdngi3KVt+YZVhtzY+sWG+N8t1v7a7u2YvPJlNijzCc3+uzxvJlQf+xxyHrHhpu ialdRpmenWe0vPajmJxxHtcKXb4sxnp8ywe34PEg= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Leo Yan , Ian Rogers , Namhyung Kim , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.10 384/589] perf expr: Return -EINVAL for syntax error in expr__find_ids() Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 18:04:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20260530160234.894106721@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260530160224.570625122@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260530160224.570625122@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Leo Yan [ Upstream commit 3a61fd866ef9aaa1d3158b460f852b74a2df07f4 ] expr__find_ids() propagates the parser return value directly. For syntax errors, the parser can return a positive value, but callers treat it as success, e.g., for below case on Arm64 platform: metric expr 100 * (STALL_SLOT_BACKEND / (CPU_CYCLES * #slots) - BR_MIS_PRED * 3 / CPU_CYCLES) for backend_bound parsing metric: 100 * (STALL_SLOT_BACKEND / (CPU_CYCLES * #slots) - BR_MIS_PRED * 3 / CPU_CYCLES) Failure to read '#slots' literal: #slots = nan syntax error Convert positive parser returns in expr__find_ids() to -EINVAL, as a result, the error value will be respected by callers. Before: perf stat -C 5 Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Failure to read '#slots'Segmentation fault After: perf stat -C 5 Failure to read '#slots'Cannot find metric or group `Default' Fixes: ded80bda8bc9 ("perf expr: Migrate expr ids table to a hashmap") Signed-off-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/perf/util/expr.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/expr.c b/tools/perf/util/expr.c index 53482ef53c411..15f857fb0e713 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/expr.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/expr.c @@ -239,5 +239,6 @@ int expr__find_other(const char *expr, const char *one, if (one) expr__del_id(ctx, one); - return ret; + /* A positive value means syntax error, convert to -EINVAL */ + return ret > 0 ? -EINVAL : ret; } -- 2.53.0