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* [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] perf probe: Fix regression of variable finder
@ 2011-08-20  5:39 Masami Hiramatsu
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From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2011-08-20  5:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Ingo Molnar
  Cc: Frederic Weisbecker, Peter Zijlstra, Pekka Enberg, linux-kernel,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt, Masami Hiramatsu, Peter Zijlstra,
	Paul Mackerras, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Fix to call convert_variable() if previous call does not fail.

To call convert_variable, it ensures "ret" is 0. However, since
"ret" has the return value of synthesize_perf_probe_arg() which
always returns positive value if it succeeded, perf probe doesn't
call convert_variable(). This will cause a SEGV when we add an
event with arguments.

This has to be fixed as it ensures "ret" is greater than 0
(or not negative).

This regression has been introduced by my previous patch, f182e3e1.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
---

 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 555fc38..5d73262 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static int find_variable(Dwarf_Die *sc_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
 		if (!die_find_variable_at(&pf->cu_die, pf->pvar->var, 0, &vr_die))
 			ret = -ENOENT;
 	}
-	if (ret == 0)
+	if (ret >= 0)
 		ret = convert_variable(&vr_die, pf);
 
 	if (ret < 0)


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