This improve the error message so that user can know event-name error
before writing new events to kprobe-events interface.
E.g.
======
#./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc_get_state*
Internal error: "malloc_get_state@GLIBC_2" is an invalid event name.
Error: Failed to add events.
======
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275040665.24652.5188568529237584489.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
out:
free(nbase);
+
+ /* Final validation */
+ if (ret >= 0 && !is_c_func_name(buf)) {
+ pr_warning("Internal error: \"%s\" is an invalid event name.\n",
+ buf);
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ }
+
return ret;
}