linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH v6 1/9] perf config: Fix the problem of abnormal termination at perf_parse

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jun 2016 17:21:55 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH v6 1/9] perf config: Fix the problem of abnormal
 termination at perf_parse_file()

Em Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 07:52:52PM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu:
> For example,
> 
> If user config file has a wrong value 'red;default'
> instead of a normal value like 'red, default' for a key 'colors.top',
> 
>     # cat ~/.perfconfig
>     [colors]
>         medium = red;default # wrong value
> 
> and if running sub-command 'top',
> 
>     # perf top
> 
> perf process is dead by force and terminal setting is broken
> with a messge like below.
> 
>     Fatal: bad config file line 2 in /root/.perfconfig

Thanks, reproduced, tested, applied.

- Arnaldo