[PATCH 2/3] tracing: Add field parsing hist error for hist triggers

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Thu Apr 26 2018 - 21:05:22 EST


If the user specifies a nonexistent field for a hist trigger, the
current code correctly flags that as an error, but doesn't tell the
user what happened.

Fix this by invoking hist_err() with an appropriate message when
nonexistent fields are specified.

Before:

# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
-su: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist

After:

# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
-su: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist
ERROR: Couldn't find field: pid
Last command: keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 66c87be..f231fa2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2481,6 +2481,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_var_ref(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
else {
field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name);
if (!field || !field->size) {
+ hist_err("Couldn't find field: ", field_name);
field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
goto out;
}
--
1.9.3