[DTrace-devel] [PATCH 3/3] usdt parser: make sure prbmap is cleaned up in case of error

Kris Van Hees kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Mon Jun 30 23:09:00 UTC 2025


On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 06:07:39PM -0400, Eugene Loh wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> but it'd be great if Nick could take a look, given that he reviewed the file
> earlier.
> Out of curiosity, was there some case where the assertion failed? Could that
> be a test case?

There was an assertion failure but not one that we can have a test for since
it is in dtprobed and the testsuite cannot capture those at this point.

> (Minor nit:  I'd go for a sentence break after "allocate iterators.")
> 
> On 6/24/25 17:40, Kris Van Hees wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
> > ---
> >   libcommon/usdt_parser_notes.c | 13 +++++++------
> >   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/libcommon/usdt_parser_notes.c b/libcommon/usdt_parser_notes.c
> > index d3d744fb..c98c9fb0 100644
> > --- a/libcommon/usdt_parser_notes.c
> > +++ b/libcommon/usdt_parser_notes.c
> > @@ -829,15 +829,16 @@ usdt_parse_notes(int out, dof_helper_t *dhp, usdt_data_t *data)
> >   	goto out;
> >   err:
> > -	rc = -1;
> > -
> > -out:
> >   	/*
> > -	 * All tracepoint probes in prbmap should have been removed during
> > -	 * proessing.
> > +	 * In case of an error, we don't know whether we can allocate iterators
> > +	 * so we have few options to provide cleanup.  Since cleanup is all we
> > +	 * do now, we plug the probe cleanup function into the ops for prbmap,
> > +	 * and let the hashtable destroy function take care of all cleanup.
> >   	 */
> > -	assert(dt_htab_entries(prbmap) == 0);
> > +	prb_htab_ops.del = (htab_del_fn)prb_del_probe;
> > +	rc = -1;
> > +out:
> >   	dt_htab_destroy(prvmap);
> >   	dt_htab_destroy(prbmap);



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