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| -rwxr-xr-x | tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat b/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat index 90f0445d7808..29c56f3a05dc 100755 --- a/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat +++ b/tools/kvm/kvm_stat/kvm_stat @@ -1521,6 +1521,13 @@ Press any other key to refresh statistics immediately. callback=cb_guest_to_pid, ) (options, _) = optparser.parse_args(sys.argv) + try: + # verify that we were passed a valid regex up front + re.compile(options.fields) + except re.error: + sys.exit('Error: "' + options.fields + '" is not a valid regular ' + 'expression') + return options |