linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] perf record: Avoid infinite loop at buildid processing with no samples

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Message-Id: <1442935332-20791-2-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:22:11 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] perf record: Avoid infinite loop at buildid processing with no samples

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

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).

Commiter note:

I only managed to reproduce this when setting
/proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict to '1' and changing the code to
purposefully not process any samples and no synthesized samples, i.e.
kptr_restrict prevents 'record' from synthesizing the kernel mmaps for
vmlinux + modules and since it is a workload started from perf, we don't
synthesize mmap/comm records for existing threads.

Adrian Hunter managed to reproduce it in his environment tho.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442423929-12253-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
---
 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 8a4537ee9bc3..fc3f7c922f99 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...");
-- 
2.1.0

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