linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] perf trace: Validate syscall id before growing syscall table

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Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:30:21 -0200
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] perf trace: Validate syscall id before growing syscall table

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

In some cases the ID for a syscall read thru the raw_syscalls tracepoint
is bogus, still needs to be investigated why, but to make the tool more
robust first try to resolve the ID to a name via libaudit and if it
fails, don't grow the table.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-0lsokw3xor7c4ijo45u6bauh@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index dec8ced..83c6515 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ static int trace__read_syscall_info(struct trace *trace, int id)
 {
 	char tp_name[128];
 	struct syscall *sc;
+	const char *name = audit_syscall_to_name(id, trace->audit_machine);
+
+	if (name == NULL)
+		return -1;
 
 	if (id > trace->syscalls.max) {
 		struct syscall *nsyscalls = realloc(trace->syscalls.table, (id + 1) * sizeof(*sc));
@@ -75,11 +79,8 @@ static int trace__read_syscall_info(struct trace *trace, int id)
 	}
 
 	sc = trace->syscalls.table + id;
-	sc->name = audit_syscall_to_name(id, trace->audit_machine);
-	if (sc->name == NULL)
-		return -1;
-
-	sc->fmt = syscall_fmt__find(sc->name);
+	sc->name = name;
+	sc->fmt  = syscall_fmt__find(sc->name);
 
 	snprintf(tp_name, sizeof(tp_name), "sys_enter_%s", sc->name);
 	sc->tp_format = event_format__new("syscalls", tp_name);
-- 
1.7.1

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