linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix segfault due to invalid kernel dso access

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:52:06 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix segfault due to invalid kernel dso access

Em Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:44:36PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Arnaldo,
> 
> Could you please consider applying this?

Right, I should've added this to the previous pull req, will be on the
next.

- Arnaldo
 
> Thanks,
> Namhyung
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:30:28 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Jiri reported that the commit 96d78059d6d9 ("perf tools: Make vmlinux
> > short name more like kallsyms short name") segfaults on perf script.
> >
> > When processing kernel mmap event, it should access the 'kernel'
> > variable as sometimes it cannot find a matching dso from build-id
> > table so 'dso' might be invalid.
> >
> > Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> > Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/machine.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> > index 52e94902afb1..85033d80fd6a 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> > @@ -1106,8 +1106,8 @@ static int machine__process_kernel_mmap_event(struct machine *machine,
> >  		if (__machine__create_kernel_maps(machine, kernel) < 0)
> >  			goto out_problem;
> >  
> > -		if (strstr(dso->long_name, "vmlinux"))
> > -			dso__set_short_name(dso, "[kernel.vmlinux]", false);
> > +		if (strstr(kernel->long_name, "vmlinux"))
> > +			dso__set_short_name(kernel, "[kernel.vmlinux]", false);
> >  
> >  		machine__set_kernel_mmap_len(machine, event);
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