linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] perf annotate: Fix a bug reading link name from a build-id file

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Message-ID: <20170327180140.GB27431@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 15:01:40 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] perf annotate: Fix a bug reading link name from a
 build-id file

Em Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 04:10:36PM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu:
> It is wrong way to read link name from a build-id file.
> Because a build-id file is not symbolic link
> but build-id directory of it is symbolic link, so fix it.

Ok, applied, in the past it was always a symlink, but the following cset
changed that, so I added:

    Fixes: 01412261d994 ("perf buildid-cache: Use path/to/bin/buildid/elf instead of path/to/bin/buildid")

Thanks,

- Arnaldo
 
> For example, if build-id file name gotten from
> dso__build_id_filename() is as below,
> 
>   /root/.debug/.build-id/4f/75c7d197c951659d1c1b8b5fd49bcdf8f3f8b1/elf
> 
> To correctly read link name of build-id,
> use the build-id dir path that is a symbolic link,
> instead of the above build-id file name like below.
> 
>   /root/.debug/.build-id/4f/75c7d197c951659d1c1b8b5fd49bcdf8f3f8b1
> 
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> index 3d0263e..6dc9148 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
> @@ -1307,6 +1307,7 @@ static int dso__disassemble_filename(struct dso *dso, char *filename, size_t fil
>  {
>  	char linkname[PATH_MAX];
>  	char *build_id_filename;
> +	char *build_id_path = NULL;
>  
>  	if (dso->symtab_type == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__KALLSYMS &&
>  	    !dso__is_kcore(dso))
> @@ -1322,8 +1323,14 @@ static int dso__disassemble_filename(struct dso *dso, char *filename, size_t fil
>  		goto fallback;
>  	}
>  
> +	build_id_path = strdup(filename);
> +	if (!build_id_path)
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	dirname(build_id_path);
> +
>  	if (dso__is_kcore(dso) ||
> -	    readlink(filename, linkname, sizeof(linkname)) < 0 ||
> +	    readlink(build_id_path, linkname, sizeof(linkname)) < 0 ||
>  	    strstr(linkname, DSO__NAME_KALLSYMS) ||
>  	    access(filename, R_OK)) {
>  fallback:
> @@ -1335,6 +1342,7 @@ static int dso__disassemble_filename(struct dso *dso, char *filename, size_t fil
>  		__symbol__join_symfs(filename, filename_size, dso->long_name);
>  	}
>  
> +	free(build_id_path);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4