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Message-ID: <tip-pewrpzqd29rgmhu2wkk7fhww@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Aug 2015 03:00:50 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bp@...e.de, hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, eranian@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, acme@...hat.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, adrian.hunter@...el.com, dsahern@...il.com,
	namhyung@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf top:
  Show backtrace when handling a SIGSEGV on --stdio mode

Commit-ID:  09f4d78ab0af0973e1a49c10eb7bf977c68cc3aa
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/09f4d78ab0af0973e1a49c10eb7bf977c68cc3aa
Author:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:16:08 -0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:16:08 -0300

perf top: Show backtrace when handling a SIGSEGV on --stdio mode

It was just freezing instead of informing about the SEGV, fix it and
also print a backtrace, just like in the TUI mode and in 'perf trace'.

Tested by provoking a NULL deref when pressing 'z':

     0.31%  libc-2.20.so     [.] malloc_consolidate
     0.31%  ld-2.20.so       [.] _dl_relocate_object
     0.28%  cc1              [.] ht_lookup
     0.28%  cc1              [.] ira_init_register_move_cost
  perf: Segmentation fault
  Obtained 7 stack frames.
  perf(dump_stack+0x32) [0x4d69f2]
  perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x29) [0x4d6a89]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x34960) [0x7f5064333960]
  perf() [0x438790]
  /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x752a) [0x7f50663dd52a]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d) [0x7f50643ff22d]
  #

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pewrpzqd29rgmhu2wkk7fhww@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index ecf3197..6135cc0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -601,8 +601,8 @@ static void display_sig(int sig __maybe_unused)
 
 static void display_setup_sig(void)
 {
-	signal(SIGSEGV, display_sig);
-	signal(SIGFPE,  display_sig);
+	signal(SIGSEGV, sighandler_dump_stack);
+	signal(SIGFPE, sighandler_dump_stack);
 	signal(SIGINT,  display_sig);
 	signal(SIGQUIT, display_sig);
 	signal(SIGTERM, display_sig);
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