linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in "perf bench all"

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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:34:56 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Patrick Palka <patrick@...cs.ath.cx>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, paulus@...ba.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in "perf bench
 all"

Em Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 06:40:51PM -0400, Patrick Palka escreveu:
> for_each_bench() must check that the "benchmarks" field of a collection
> is not NULL before dereferencing it because the "all" collection in
> particular has a NULL "benchmarks" field (signifying that it has no
> benchmarks to iterate over).
> 
> This fixes a NULL pointer dereference when running "perf bench all".

Can you please mention against which tree you're fixing things? I just
tried to reproduce it here on perf/urgent and this problem is not
reproducible by simply running:

  perf bench all

So now I'm going to try on perf/core, tip/master, etc :-\

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@...cs.ath.cx>
> ---
>  tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> index e47f90c..8a987d2 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static struct collection collections[] = {
>  
>  /* Iterate over all benchmarks within a collection: */
>  #define for_each_bench(coll, bench) \
> -	for (bench = coll->benchmarks; bench->name; bench++)
> +	for (bench = coll->benchmarks; bench && bench->name; bench++)
>  
>  static void dump_benchmarks(struct collection *coll)
>  {
> -- 
> 1.9.0
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