From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>,
Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>,
Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com>,
Ivan Pravdin <ipravdin.official@gmail.com>,
Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>,
John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
Haiyong Sun <sunhaiyong@loongson.cn>,
Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>,
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list:Real-time Linux
Analysis (RTLA) tools),
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(RTLA) tools),
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Subject: [PATCH v3 03/18] rtla: Simplify argument parsing
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:31:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260115163650.118910-4-wander@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115163650.118910-1-wander@redhat.com>
The actions_parse() function uses open-coded logic to extract arguments
from a string. This includes manual length checks and strncmp() calls,
which can be verbose and error-prone.
To simplify and improve the robustness of argument parsing, introduce a
new extract_arg() helper macro. This macro extracts the value from a
"key=value" pair, making the code more concise and readable.
Also, introduce STRING_LENGTH() and strncmp_static() macros to
perform compile-time calculations of string lengths and safer string
comparisons.
Refactor actions_parse() to use these new helpers, resulting in
cleaner and more maintainable code.
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
---
tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h | 14 ++++++--
2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
index 0ac42ffd734a3..b0d68b5de08db 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c
@@ -111,6 +111,29 @@ actions_add_continue(struct actions *self)
action->type = ACTION_CONTINUE;
}
+static inline const char *__extract_arg(const char *token, const char *opt, size_t opt_len)
+{
+ const size_t tok_len = strlen(token);
+
+ if (tok_len <= opt_len)
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (strncmp(token, opt, opt_len))
+ return NULL;
+
+ return token + opt_len;
+}
+
+/*
+ * extract_arg - extract argument value from option token
+ * @token: option token (e.g., "file=trace.txt")
+ * @opt: option name to match (e.g., "file")
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to argument value after "=" if token matches "opt=",
+ * otherwise returns NULL.
+ */
+#define extract_arg(token, opt) __extract_arg(token, opt "=", STRING_LENGTH(opt "="))
+
/*
* actions_parse - add an action based on text specification
*/
@@ -120,6 +143,7 @@ actions_parse(struct actions *self, const char *trigger, const char *tracefn)
enum action_type type = ACTION_NONE;
const char *token;
char trigger_c[strlen(trigger) + 1];
+ const char *arg_value;
/* For ACTION_SIGNAL */
int signal = 0, pid = 0;
@@ -152,12 +176,10 @@ actions_parse(struct actions *self, const char *trigger, const char *tracefn)
if (token == NULL)
trace_output = tracefn;
else {
- if (strlen(token) > 5 && strncmp(token, "file=", 5) == 0) {
- trace_output = token + 5;
- } else {
+ trace_output = extract_arg(token, "file");
+ if (!trace_output)
/* Invalid argument */
return -1;
- }
token = strtok(NULL, ",");
if (token != NULL)
@@ -169,17 +191,21 @@ actions_parse(struct actions *self, const char *trigger, const char *tracefn)
case ACTION_SIGNAL:
/* Takes two arguments, num (signal) and pid */
while (token != NULL) {
- if (strlen(token) > 4 && strncmp(token, "num=", 4) == 0) {
- if (strtoi(token + 4, &signal))
- return -1;
- } else if (strlen(token) > 4 && strncmp(token, "pid=", 4) == 0) {
- if (strncmp(token + 4, "parent", 7) == 0)
- pid = -1;
- else if (strtoi(token + 4, &pid))
+ arg_value = extract_arg(token, "num");
+ if (arg_value) {
+ if (strtoi(arg_value, &signal))
return -1;
} else {
- /* Invalid argument */
- return -1;
+ arg_value = extract_arg(token, "pid");
+ if (arg_value) {
+ if (strncmp_static(arg_value, "parent") == 0)
+ pid = -1;
+ else if (strtoi(arg_value, &pid))
+ return -1;
+ } else {
+ /* Invalid argument */
+ return -1;
+ }
}
token = strtok(NULL, ",");
@@ -194,9 +220,10 @@ actions_parse(struct actions *self, const char *trigger, const char *tracefn)
case ACTION_SHELL:
if (token == NULL)
return -1;
- if (strlen(token) > 8 && strncmp(token, "command=", 8))
+ arg_value = extract_arg(token, "command");
+ if (!arg_value)
return -1;
- actions_add_shell(self, token + 8);
+ actions_add_shell(self, arg_value);
break;
case ACTION_CONTINUE:
/* Takes no argument */
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h
index e29c2eb5d569d..8323c999260c2 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h
@@ -14,8 +14,18 @@
#define MAX_NICE 20
#define MIN_NICE -19
-#define container_of(ptr, type, member)({ \
- const typeof(((type *)0)->member) *__mptr = (ptr); \
+#ifndef ARRAY_SIZE
+#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof(x) / sizeof(*(x)))
+#endif
+
+/* Calculate string length at compile time (excluding null terminator) */
+#define STRING_LENGTH(s) (ARRAY_SIZE(s) - sizeof(*(s)))
+
+/* Compare string with static string, length determined at compile time */
+#define strncmp_static(s1, s2) strncmp(s1, s2, ARRAY_SIZE(s2))
+
+#define container_of(ptr, type, member)({ \
+ const typeof(((type *)0)->member) * __mptr = (ptr); \
(type *)((char *)__mptr - offsetof(type, member)) ; })
extern int config_debug;
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-15 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-15 16:31 [PATCH v3 00/18] rtla: Robustness and code quality improvements Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 01/18] rtla: Exit on memory allocation failures during initialization Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 02/18] rtla: Use strdup() to simplify code Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` Wander Lairson Costa [this message]
2026-01-15 21:47 ` [PATCH v3 03/18] rtla: Simplify argument parsing Costa Shulyupin
2026-01-16 11:38 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-03 11:58 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 04/18] rtla: Introduce common_threshold_handler() helper Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 05/18] rtla: Replace magic number with MAX_PATH Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-03 12:46 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 06/18] rtla: Simplify code by caching string lengths Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 07/18] rtla: Add strscpy() and replace strncpy() calls Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-02 14:33 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-03-03 11:02 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 08/18] rtla/timerlat: Add bounds check for softirq vector Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 09/18] rtla: Handle pthread_create() failure properly Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 10/18] rtla: Add str_has_prefix() helper function Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 11/18] rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for prefix checks Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] rtla: Enforce exact match for time unit suffixes Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-03 14:27 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-03-09 17:17 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-04 13:57 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-03-09 17:15 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for option prefix check Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 14/18] rtla/timerlat: Simplify RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable check Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-03 14:38 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 15/18] rtla/trace: Fix write loop in trace_event_save_hist() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-03 14:51 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-01-15 16:31 ` [PATCH v3 16/18] rtla/trace: Fix I/O handling in save_trace_to_file() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-03-04 10:30 ` Tomas Glozar
2026-03-09 16:46 ` Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:32 ` [PATCH v3 17/18] rtla/utils: Fix resource leak in set_comm_sched_attr() Wander Lairson Costa
2026-01-15 16:32 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] rtla/utils: Fix loop condition in PID validation Wander Lairson Costa
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