perf python: Correctly throw IndexError

Correctly throw IndexError for out-of-bound accesses to evlist:

  Python 3.11.9 (main, Jun 19 2024, 00:38:48) [GCC 13.2.0] on linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import sys
  >>> sys.path.insert(0, '/tmp/perf/python')
  >>> import perf
  >>> x=perf.parse_events('cycles')
  >>> print(x)
  evlist([cycles])
  >>> x[2]
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  IndexError: Index out of range

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Dapeng Mi <dapeng1.mi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119011644.971342-23-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/python.c b/tools/perf/util/python.c
index 893aa4185c034c2a5edf0c3022e366f0e4b386ff..b4bc57859f7302cb0d665efa37e3c9ed386641dc 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/python.c
@@ -1071,8 +1071,10 @@ static PyObject *pyrf_evlist__item(PyObject *obj, Py_ssize_t i)
        struct pyrf_evlist *pevlist = (void *)obj;
        struct evsel *pos;
 
-       if (i >= pevlist->evlist.core.nr_entries)
+       if (i >= pevlist->evlist.core.nr_entries) {
+               PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError, "Index out of range");
                return NULL;
+       }
 
        evlist__for_each_entry(&pevlist->evlist, pos) {
                if (i-- == 0)