From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:24:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: perf evsel: Ensure the fallback message is always written to
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24937ee839e4bbc097acde73eeed67812bad2d99;p=users%2Fjedix%2Flinux-maple.git

perf evsel: Ensure the fallback message is always written to

The fallback message is unconditionally printed in places like
record__open().

If no fallback is attempted this can lead to printing uninitialized
data, crashes, etc.

Fixes: c0a54341c0e89333 ("perf evsel: Introduce event fallback method")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 6947072598b1..1a29d4f47bbf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -3562,7 +3562,7 @@ bool evsel__fallback(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target, int err,
 
 		/* If event has exclude user then don't exclude kernel. */
 		if (evsel->core.attr.exclude_user)
-			return false;
+			goto no_fallback;
 
 		/* Is there already the separator in the name. */
 		if (strchr(name, '/') ||
@@ -3570,7 +3570,7 @@ bool evsel__fallback(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target, int err,
 			sep = "";
 
 		if (asprintf(&new_name, "%s%su", name, sep) < 0)
-			return false;
+			goto no_fallback;
 
 		free(evsel->name);
 		evsel->name = new_name;
@@ -3593,17 +3593,19 @@ bool evsel__fallback(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target, int err,
 			sep = "";
 
 		if (asprintf(&new_name, "%s%sH", name, sep) < 0)
-			return false;
+			goto no_fallback;
 
 		free(evsel->name);
 		evsel->name = new_name;
 		/* Apple M1 requires exclude_guest */
-		scnprintf(msg, msgsize, "trying to fall back to excluding guest samples");
+		scnprintf(msg, msgsize, "Trying to fall back to excluding guest samples");
 		evsel->core.attr.exclude_guest = 1;
 
 		return true;
 	}
-
+no_fallback:
+	scnprintf(msg, msgsize, "No fallback found for '%s' for error %d",
+		  evsel__name(evsel), err);
 	return false;
 }