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* [PATCH v2] tracing: Report wrong dynamic event command
@ 2025-11-10 15:48 Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
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From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) @ 2025-11-10 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu
  Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers, linux-kernel, linux-trace-kernel

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Report wrong dynamic event type in the command via error_log.
-----
 # echo "z hoge" > /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
 sh: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat /sys/kernel/tracing/error_log
 [   22.977022] dynevent: error: No matching dynamic event type
   Command: z hoge
            ^
-----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
  Changes in v2
    - Use tracing_log_err() directly to avoid compile error.
    - Update error message.
---
 kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
index d06854bd32b3..c4dfbc293bae 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
@@ -144,9 +144,16 @@ static int create_dyn_event(const char *raw_command)
 		if (!ret || ret != -ECANCELED)
 			break;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&dyn_event_ops_mutex);
-	if (ret == -ECANCELED)
+	if (ret == -ECANCELED) {
+		static const char *err_msg[] = {"No matching dynamic event type"};
+
+		/* Wrong dynamic event. Leave an error message. */
+		tracing_log_err(NULL, "dynevent", raw_command, err_msg,
+				0, 0);
 		ret = -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	mutex_unlock(&dyn_event_ops_mutex);
 
 	return ret;
 }


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