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authorHyeoncheol Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>2012-09-11 16:57:28 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-01-24 16:40:20 -0300
commit7ce28b5b5b320e26ac6a0e352d5005bce3530e05 (patch)
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perf probe: Allow of casting an array of char to string
Before casting a type of a variable to string, convert_variable_type() confirms that the type is a pointer or an array. then if it is a pointer to char, it is casted to string. but in case of an array of char, it isn't Signed-off-by: H.C. Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANFS6bb75e8a_UtyAD9yF73hfXDy0N8tSjDz=a+Vna=Y8ORMHg@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 1daf5c14e75..be0329394d5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -413,12 +413,12 @@ static int convert_variable_type(Dwarf_Die *vr_die,
dwarf_diename(vr_die), dwarf_diename(&type));
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (die_get_real_type(&type, &type) == NULL) {
+ pr_warning("Failed to get a type"
+ " information.\n");
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
if (ret == DW_TAG_pointer_type) {
- if (die_get_real_type(&type, &type) == NULL) {
- pr_warning("Failed to get a type"
- " information.\n");
- return -ENOENT;
- }
while (*ref_ptr)
ref_ptr = &(*ref_ptr)->next;
/* Add new reference with offset +0 */