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[2/8] perf tools: Don't assume that the parser returns non empty evsel list

Message ID 1442870601-26004-3-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org
State New
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Sept. 21, 2015, 9:23 p.m. UTC 
From: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>

Don't blindly retrieve and use a last element in the lists returned by
parse_events__scanner(), as it may have collected no entries, i.e.
return an empty list.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441523623-152703-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/parse-events.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
index 0fde5293a38e..61c2bc20926d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.c
@@ -827,6 +827,11 @@  void parse_events__set_leader(char *name, struct list_head *list)
 {
 	struct perf_evsel *leader;
 
+	if (list_empty(list)) {
+		WARN_ONCE(true, "WARNING: failed to set leader: empty list");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	__perf_evlist__set_leader(list);
 	leader = list_entry(list->next, struct perf_evsel, node);
 	leader->group_name = name ? strdup(name) : NULL;
@@ -1176,6 +1181,11 @@  int parse_events(struct perf_evlist *evlist, const char *str,
 	if (!ret) {
 		struct perf_evsel *last;
 
+		if (list_empty(&data.list)) {
+			WARN_ONCE(true, "WARNING: event parser found nothing");
+			return -1;
+		}
+
 		perf_evlist__splice_list_tail(evlist, &data.list);
 		evlist->nr_groups += data.nr_groups;
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);
@@ -1285,6 +1295,12 @@  foreach_evsel_in_last_glob(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 	struct perf_evsel *last = NULL;
 	int err;
 
+	/*
+	 * Don't return when list_empty, give func a chance to report
+	 * error when it found last == NULL.
+	 *
+	 * So no need to WARN here, let *func do this.
+	 */
 	if (evlist->nr_entries > 0)
 		last = perf_evlist__last(evlist);