Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-20160510' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

User visible changes:

- Recording 'dwarf' callchains do not need DWARF unwinding support (He Kuang)

- Print recently added perf_event_attr.write_backward bit flag in -vv
  verbose mode (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

- Fix incorrect python db-export error message in 'perf script' (Chris Phlipot)

- Fix handling of zero-length symbols (Chris Phlipot)

- perf stat: Scale values by unit before metrics (Andi Kleen)

Infrastructure changes:

- Rewrite strbuf not to die(), making tools using it to check its
  return value instead (Masami Hiramatsu)

- Support reading from backward ring buffer, add a 'perf test' entry
  for it (Wang Nan)

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index 83ffe7cd7330..797000842d40 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -309,9 +309,11 @@ static int handle_alias(int *argcp, const char ***argv)
 			if (*argcp > 1) {
 				struct strbuf buf;
 
-				strbuf_init(&buf, PATH_MAX);
-				strbuf_addstr(&buf, alias_string);
-				sq_quote_argv(&buf, (*argv) + 1, PATH_MAX);
+				if (strbuf_init(&buf, PATH_MAX) < 0 ||
+				    strbuf_addstr(&buf, alias_string) < 0 ||
+				    sq_quote_argv(&buf, (*argv) + 1,
+						  PATH_MAX) < 0)
+					die("Failed to allocate memory.");
 				free(alias_string);
 				alias_string = buf.buf;
 			}