perf parse: Add parse events handle error

Parse event error handling may overwrite one error string with another
creating memory leaks. Introduce a helper routine that warns about
multiple error messages as well as avoiding the memory leak.

A reproduction of this problem can be seen with:

  perf stat -e c/c/

After this change this produces:
WARNING: multiple event parsing errors
event syntax error: 'c/c/'
                       \___ unknown term

valid terms: event,filter_rem,filter_opc0,edge,filter_isoc,filter_tid,filter_loc,filter_nc,inv,umask,filter_opc1,tid_en,thresh,filter_all_op,filter_not_nm,filter_state,filter_nm,config,config1,config2,name,period,percore
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

 Usage: perf stat [<options>] [<command>]

    -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191030223448.12930-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
index 769e07cddaa2..34f58d24a06a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.h
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ struct parse_events_state {
 	struct list_head	  *terms;
 };
 
+void parse_events__handle_error(struct parse_events_error *err, int idx,
+				char *str, char *help);
 void parse_events__shrink_config_terms(void);
 int parse_events__is_hardcoded_term(struct parse_events_term *term);
 int parse_events_term__num(struct parse_events_term **term,