linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf tools: session: avoid infinite loop

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2015 18:18:49 +0100
From:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: session: avoid infinite loop

If a session contains no events, we can get stuck in an infinite loop in
__perf_session__process_events, with a non-zero file_size and
data_offset, but a zero data_size.

In this case, we can mmap the entirety of the file (consisting of the
file and attribute headers), and fetch_mmaped_event will correctly
refuse to read any (unmapped and non-existent) event headers. This
causes __perf_session__process_events to unmap the file and retry with
the exact same parameters, getting stuck in an infinite loop.

This has been observed to result in an exit-time hang when counting
rare/unschedulable events with perf record, and can be triggered
artificially with the script below:

----
#!/bin/sh
printf "REPRO: launching perf\n";
./perf record -e software/config=9/ sleep 1 &
PERF_PID=$!;
sleep 0.002;
kill -2 $PERF_PID;
printf "REPRO: waiting for perf (%d) to exit...\n" "$PERF_PID";
wait $PERF_PID;
printf "REPRO: perf exited\n";
----

To avoid this, have __perf_session__process_events bail out early when
the file has no data (i.e. it has no events).

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/session.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 8a4537e..fc3f7c9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1580,7 +1580,10 @@ static int __perf_session__process_events(struct perf_session *session,
 	file_offset = page_offset;
 	head = data_offset - page_offset;
 
-	if (data_size && (data_offset + data_size < file_size))
+	if (data_size == 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (data_offset + data_size < file_size)
 		file_size = data_offset + data_size;
 
 	ui_progress__init(&prog, file_size, "Processing events...");
-- 
1.9.1

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