> From: Wang Nan [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> 'perf probe -l' reports error if it is unable find symbol through
> address. Here is an example.
> 
>  # echo 'p:probe_libc/abs_5 /lib64/libc.so.6:0x5' >
>           /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
>  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
>   p:probe_libc/abs_5 /lib64/libc.so.6:0x0000000000000005
>  # perf probe -l
>    Error: Failed to show event list
> 
> Also, this situation triggers a logical inconsistency in
> convert_to_perf_probe_point() that, it returns ENOMEM but actually
> it never try strdup().
> 
> This patch removes !tp->module && !is_kprobe condition, so it
> always uses address to build function name if symbol not found.
> 
> Test result:
> 
>  # perf probe -l
>    probe_libc:abs_5     (on 0x5 in /lib64/libc.so.6)
> 

Looks good!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

Thank you!

> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> index 6c7e538..f7bacbb 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> @@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@ static int convert_to_perf_probe_point(struct 
> probe_trace_point *tp,
>       if (tp->symbol) {
>               pp->function = strdup(tp->symbol);
>               pp->offset = tp->offset;
> -     } else if (!tp->module && !is_kprobe) {
> +     } else {
>               ret = e_snprintf(buf, 128, "0x%" PRIx64, (u64)tp->address);
>               if (ret < 0)
>                       return ret;
> --
> 1.8.3.4

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