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Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 10:22:22 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [BUG?] perf_event_open fails on synthetic event created through
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On Mon, 12 May 2025 16:08:42 +0200
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> wrote:

> It seems that it is trying to access a struct tracepoint object whose
> func field is NULL. I have not tried attaching to dynamic events
> through perf before, so I don't know whether this is just
> unimplemented and poorly handled or a regression. For what it's worth,
> it also happens on CentOS Stream 9 kernel (5.14.0-578.el9).

I think it is unimplemented and poorly handled ;-)

If this is something you want, we can add the feature for it, but for this
release and stable kernels, as it's not a regression, the fix is to have it
not produce a warning and give something like "-EINVAL" back to the perf
system call.

-- Steve