linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] perf probe: Don't call die()

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 21:28:00 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] perf probe: Don't call die()

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

Functions that were calling xzalloc also returned -1 when, for other
reasons, it could fail, and the calleds are coping with failures, so
stop using die() and xzalloc().

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index 61c6d70..99b1728 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -65,8 +65,10 @@ static int parse_probe_event(const char *str)
 	int ret;
 
 	pr_debug("probe-definition(%d): %s\n", params.nevents, str);
-	if (++params.nevents == MAX_PROBES)
-		die("Too many probes (> %d) are specified.", MAX_PROBES);
+	if (++params.nevents == MAX_PROBES) {
+		pr_err("Too many probes (> %d) were specified.", MAX_PROBES);
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	/* Parse a perf-probe command into event */
 	ret = parse_perf_probe_command(str, pev);
@@ -84,7 +86,9 @@ static int parse_probe_event_argv(int argc, const char **argv)
 	len = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
 		len += strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
-	buf = xzalloc(len + 1);
+	buf = zalloc(len + 1);
+	if (buf == NULL)
+		return -1;
 	len = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
 		len += sprintf(&buf[len], "%s ", argv[i]);
-- 
1.6.2.5

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