perf probe: Check if *ptr2 is zero and not ptr2
authorColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:34:31 +0000 (11:34 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 3 Oct 2016 14:24:12 +0000 (11:24 -0300)
Static anaylsis with cppcheck[1] detected an incorrect comparison:
[tools/perf/util/probe-event.c:216]: (warning) Char literal compared
with pointer 'ptr2'. Did you intend to dereference it?

Dereference ptr2 for the comparison to fix this.

1: https://sourceforge.net/p/cppcheck/wiki/Home/

Signed-off-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 35726d3a4ca9 ("perf probe: Fix to cut off incompatible chars from group name")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161003103431.18534-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

index fcfbef0..d281ae2 100644 (file)
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ static int convert_exec_to_group(const char *exec, char **result)
                goto out;
        }
 
-       for (ptr2 = ptr1; ptr2 != '\0'; ptr2++) {
+       for (ptr2 = ptr1; *ptr2 != '\0'; ptr2++) {
                if (!isalnum(*ptr2) && *ptr2 != '_') {
                        *ptr2 = '\0';
                        break;