Commit 7ce28b5b authored by Hyeoncheol Lee's avatar Hyeoncheol Lee Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Allow of casting an array of char to string

Before casting a type of a variable to string, convert_variable_type()
confirms that the type is a pointer or an array. then if it is a pointer
to char, it is casted to string.  but in case of an array of char, it
isn't
Signed-off-by: default avatarH.C. Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CANFS6bb75e8a_UtyAD9yF73hfXDy0N8tSjDz=a+Vna=Y8ORMHg@mail.gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent b878e7fb
......@@ -413,12 +413,12 @@ static int convert_variable_type(Dwarf_Die *vr_die,
dwarf_diename(vr_die), dwarf_diename(&type));
return -EINVAL;
}
if (ret == DW_TAG_pointer_type) {
if (die_get_real_type(&type, &type) == NULL) {
pr_warning("Failed to get a type"
" information.\n");
return -ENOENT;
}
if (ret == DW_TAG_pointer_type) {
while (*ref_ptr)
ref_ptr = &(*ref_ptr)->next;
/* Add new reference with offset +0 */
......
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