Patch "perf probe: Return errno when not hitting any event" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "perf probe: Return errno when not hitting any event" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf probe: Return errno when not hitting any event

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-probe-return-errno-when-not-hitting-any-event.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:16:32 +0800
Subject: perf probe: Return errno when not hitting any event

From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>


[ Upstream commit 70946723eeb859466f026274b29c6196e39149c4 ]

On old perf, when using 'perf probe -d' to delete an inexistent event,
it returns errno, eg,

  -bash-4.3# perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  Info: Event "*:xxx" does not exist.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  255

But now perf_del_probe_events() will always set ret = 0, different from
previous del_perf_probe_events(). After this, it returns errno again,
eg,

  -bash-4.3# ./perf probe -d xxx  || echo $?
  "xxx" does not hit any event.
    Error: Failed to delete events.
  254

And it is more appropriate to return -ENOENT instead of -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: dddc7ee32fa1 ("perf probe: Fix an error when deleting probes successfully")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1489738592-61011-1-git-send-email-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -405,9 +405,9 @@ static int perf_del_probe_events(struct
 	}
 
 	if (ret == -ENOENT && ret2 == -ENOENT)
-		pr_debug("\"%s\" does not hit any event.\n", str);
-		/* Note that this is silently ignored */
-	ret = 0;
+		pr_warning("\"%s\" does not hit any event.\n", str);
+	else
+		ret = 0;
 
 error:
 	if (kfd >= 0)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com are

queue-4.4/perf-probe-return-errno-when-not-hitting-any-event.patch