linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: detect when perf.data file not closed out properly

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Date:	Wed,  8 May 2013 09:08:48 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	acme@...stprotocols.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: detect when perf.data file not closed out properly

perf-record updates the header in the perf.data file at termination.
Without this update perf-report (and other processing builtins) cannot
properly read events from the file -- the algorithm in
__perf_session__process_events depends on the data_size which is read
from the file header and that function loops if data_size is 0.

Catch this condition when the file is opened and warn the user.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 326068a..aa42c8c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2802,6 +2802,18 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session, int fd)
 	if (perf_file_header__read(&f_header, header, fd) < 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * sanity check that perf.data was written cleanly: data size
+	 * is initialized to 0 and updated only if the on_exit function
+	 * is run. If data size is still 0 then the file cannot be
+	 * processed.
+	 */
+	if (f_header.data.size == 0) {
+		pr_err("data size is 0. "
+		       "Was the record command properly terminated?\n");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	nr_attrs = f_header.attrs.size / f_header.attr_size;
 	lseek(fd, f_header.attrs.offset, SEEK_SET);
 
-- 
1.7.10.1

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