From: Josef Bacik It is possible that a pid has no associated comm attached to it, although it can still be passed to pevent_register_comm(). But if comm is NULL, it will cause strdup() to segfault. To prevent this from happening, if comm is NULL use the default "<...>" name for the pid. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1403799732-30308-1-git-send-email-jbacik@fb.com Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c index d7c37a7d9255..fdcb89be5e67 100644 --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c @@ -304,7 +304,10 @@ int pevent_register_comm(struct pevent *pevent, const char *comm, int pid) if (!item) return -1; - item->comm = strdup(comm); + if (comm) + item->comm = strdup(comm); + else + item->comm = strdup("<...>"); if (!item->comm) { free(item); return -1; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/