linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/22] perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:08:16 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Yao Jin <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/22] perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name

On 4/24/17 1:54 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> 
> Recent commit broke command name strip in perf_event__get_comm_ids
> function. It replaced left to right search for '\n' with rtrim, which
> actually does right to left search. It occasionally caught earlier '\n'
> and kept trash in the command name.
> 

interesting. When I reviewed that patch it didn't cross my mind that a
comm Name could have a newline in it. seems very odd to do so.