linux-kernel - perf: possible bug in perf_event__read

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1509021129060.31407@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu>
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2015 11:34:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: perf: possible bug in perf_event__read_size


so I'm trying to track down a weird bug where opening a massive amount of 
events (10000) in one group and then trying to read the values causes 
memory corruption.

But in any case I ran across this code in kernel/events/core.c

+static void perf_event__read_size(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+       int entry = sizeof(u64); /* value */
+       int size = 0;
+       int nr = 1;
+
+       if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED)
+               size += sizeof(u64);
+
+       if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING)
+               size += sizeof(u64);
+
+       if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)
+               entry += sizeof(u64);
                ^^^^^
+
+       if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP) {
+               nr += event->group_leader->nr_siblings;
+               size += sizeof(u64);
+       }
+
+       size += entry * nr;
+       event->read_size = size;
+}

Shouldn't that be

       if (event->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)
               size += sizeof(u64);

otherwise we are allocating 16-bytes for each entry rather than 8-bytes
if PERF_FORMAT_ID is specified?  or am I missing something?

I tried to track down where this change originated but my git powers are 
not enough to get a git blame to work past a file rename.

Vince
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