Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf tools: remove sscanf extension %as

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

Hi Irina,

(Adding Masami to Cc)

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:07:40 +0300, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> From: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
>
> perf uses sscanf extension %as to read and allocate a
> string in the same step. This is a non-standard extension
> only present in new versions of glibc.
>
> Replacing the use of sscanf and %as with strtok_r calls
> in order to parse a given string into its components.
> This is needed in Android since bionic does not support
> %as extension for sscanf.
>
> Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c       |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>  tools/perf/util/trace-event-parse.c |   18 ++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> index 4ce04c2..685ddcf 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> @@ -1100,6 +1100,7 @@ static int parse_probe_trace_command(const char *cmd,
>  	struct probe_trace_point *tp = &tev->point;
>  	char pr;
>  	char *p;
> +	char *argv0_str = NULL, *fmt, *fmt1_str, *fmt2_str, *fmt3_str;
>  	int ret, i, argc;
>  	char **argv;
>  
> @@ -1116,14 +1117,19 @@ static int parse_probe_trace_command(const char *cmd,
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Scan event and group name. */
> -	ret = sscanf(argv[0], "%c:%a[^/ \t]/%a[^ \t]",
> -		     &pr, (float *)(void *)&tev->group,
> -		     (float *)(void *)&tev->event);
> -	if (ret != 3) {
> +	argv0_str = strdup(argv[0]);

It seems you need to check return value of strdup.


> +	fmt1_str = strtok_r(argv0_str, ":", &fmt);
> +	fmt2_str = strtok_r(NULL, "/", &fmt);
> +	fmt3_str = strtok_r(NULL, " \t", &fmt);
> +	if (fmt1_str == NULL || strlen(fmt1_str) != 1 || fmt2_str == NULL
> +	    || fmt3_str == NULL) {
>  		semantic_error("Failed to parse event name: %s\n", argv[0]);
>  		ret = -EINVAL;
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> +	pr = fmt1_str[0];
> +	tev->group = strdup(fmt2_str);
> +	tev->event = strdup(fmt3_str);
>  	pr_debug("Group:%s Event:%s probe:%c\n", tev->group, tev->event, pr);
>  
>  	tp->retprobe = (pr == 'r');
> @@ -1135,10 +1141,13 @@ static int parse_probe_trace_command(const char *cmd,
>  		p++;
>  	} else
>  		p = argv[1];
> -	ret = sscanf(p, "%a[^+]+%lu", (float *)(void *)&tp->symbol,
> -		     &tp->offset);
> -	if (ret == 1)
> +	fmt1_str = strtok_r(p, "+", &fmt);
> +	tp->symbol = strdup(fmt1_str);

Probably here too - although the original code didn't but I think it's
needed.


> +	fmt2_str = strtok_r(NULL, "", &fmt);
> +	if (fmt2_str == NULL)
>  		tp->offset = 0;
> +	else
> +		tp->offset = strtoul(fmt2_str, NULL, 10);
>  
>  	tev->nargs = argc - 2;
>  	tev->args = zalloc(sizeof(struct probe_trace_arg) * tev->nargs);
> @@ -1162,6 +1171,8 @@ static int parse_probe_trace_command(const char *cmd,
>  	}
>  	ret = 0;
>  out:
> +	if (argv0_str)
> +		free(argv0_str);

The free() can handle a NULL pointer safely.


>  	argv_free(argv);
>  	return ret;
>  }