[PATCH 5/6] tracing: Add field parsing trace event errors for hist triggers

[Tom Zanussi]

Log errors to the tracing/events/error_log for nonexistent fields and
modifiers specified in hist triggers.

Also screen out variable references, which shouldn't be looked up as
fields.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanu...@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 08424ff..d223fd6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -2461,6 +2461,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_var_ref(struct 
hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
                else if (strcmp(modifier, "usecs") == 0)
                        *flags |= HIST_FIELD_FL_TIMESTAMP_USECS;
                else {
+                       log_err("Invalid field modifier: %s", modifier);
                        field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
                        goto out;
                }
@@ -2476,6 +2477,7 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_var_ref(struct 
hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
        else {
                field = trace_find_event_field(file->event_call, field_name);
                if (!field || !field->size) {
+                       log_err("Couldn't find field: %s", field_name);
                        field = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
                        goto out;
                }
@@ -2553,6 +2555,11 @@ static struct hist_field *parse_atom(struct 
hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
        } else
                str = s;
 
+       if (is_var_ref(str)) {
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        field = parse_field(hist_data, file, str, flags);
        if (IS_ERR(field)) {
                ret = PTR_ERR(field);
-- 
1.9.3