linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Check for null when copying nsinfo.

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Date:   Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:39:48 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Benno Evers <bevers@...osphere.com>
Cc:     Krister Johansen <kjlx@...pleofstupid.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: Check for null when copying nsinfo.

Em Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 03:36:13PM +0200, Benno Evers escreveu:
> The argument to nsinfo__copy() was assumed to be valid, but some code paths
> exist that will lead to NULL being passed.
> 
> In particular, running 'perf script -D' on a perf.data file containing an
> PERF_RECORD_MMAP event associating the '[vdso]' dso with pid 0 earlier in
> the event stream will lead to a segfault.
> 
> Since all calling code is already checking for a non-null return value,
> just return NULL for this case as well.
> 
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Benno Evers <bevers@...osphere.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo