perf probe: Check new event name

Check new event name is same syntax as a C symbol in perf command.
In other words, checking the name is as like as other tracepoint
events.

This can prevent user to create an event with useless name (e.g.
foo|bar, foo*bar).

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Jim Keniston <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Baron <[email protected]>
Cc: K.Prasad <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: systemtap <[email protected]>
Cc: DLE <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
[ v2: minor cleanups ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

@@ -62,6 +62,18 @@ static int e_snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* Check the name is good for event/group */
+static bool check_event_name(const char *name)
+{
+	if (!isalpha(*name) && *name != '_')
+		return false;
+	while (*++name != '\0') {
+		if (!isalpha(*name) && !isdigit(*name) && *name != '_')
+			return false;
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 /* Parse probepoint definition. */
 static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
 {
@@ -82,6 +94,9 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_probepoint(char *arg, struct probe_point *pp)
 		ptr = strchr(arg, ':');
 		if (ptr)	/* Group name is not supported yet. */
 			semantic_error("Group name is not supported yet.");
+		if (!check_event_name(arg))
+			semantic_error("%s is bad for event name -it must "
+				       "follow C symbol-naming rule.", arg);
 		pp->event = strdup(arg);
 		arg = tmp;
 	}