[PATCH 5.7 089/204] perf probe: Fix wrong variable warning when the probe point is not found

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-20T12:58:39Z

From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

commit 11fd3eb874e73ee8069bcfd54e3c16fa7ce56fe6 upstream.

Fix a wrong "variable not found" warning when the probe point is not
found in the debuginfo.

Since the debuginfo__find_probes() can return 0 even if it does not find
given probe point in the debuginfo, fill_empty_trace_arg() can be called
with tf.ntevs == 0 and it can emit a wrong warning. To fix this, reject
ntevs == 0 in fill_empty_trace_arg().

E.g. without this patch;

# perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.30.so -a "memcpy arg1=%di"
Failed to find the location of the '%di' variable at this address.
Perhaps it has been optimized out.
Use -V with the --range option to show '%di' location range.
Added new events:
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe_libc:memcpy -aR sleep 1

With this;

# perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.30.so -a "memcpy arg1=%di"
Added new events:
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe_libc:memcpy -aR sleep 1

Fixes: cb4027308570 ("perf probe: Trace a magic number if variable is not found")
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/159438667364.62703.2200642186798763202.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -1408,6 +1408,9 @@ static int fill_empty_trace_arg(struct p
char *type;
int i, j, ret;

+ if (!ntevs)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
for (i = 0; i < pev->nargs; i++) {
type = NULL;
for (j = 0; j < ntevs; j++) {