linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Improvements to memory usage by parse events

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Message-ID: <CAP-5=fVNYbZoEmFzxMj850eorOtRJAouzvCFObxZRZT2G7YOCg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:18:14 -0800
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Improvements to memory usage by parse events

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 2:23 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Em Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 02:14:18PM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > The parse events parser leaks memory for certain expressions as well
> > as allowing a char* to reference stack, heap or .rodata. This series
> > of patches improves the hygeine and adds free-ing operations to
> > reclaim memory in the parser in error and non-error situations.
> >
> > The series of patches was generated with LLVM's address sanitizer and
> > libFuzzer:
> > https://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
> > called on the parse_events function with randomly generated input. With
> > the patches no leaks or memory corruption issues were present.
> >
> > The v6 patches address a C90 compilation issue.
>
> Please take a look at what is in my perf/core branch, to see what is
> left, if something needs fixing, please send a patch on top of that,

Thanks, just the last patch remaining. I resent it rebased on your
perf/core branch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/8/1103
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/log/?h=perf/core

Thanks,
Ian

> Thanks,
>
> - Arnaldo
>
> > The v5 patches add initial error print to the set, as requested by
> > Jiri Olsa. They also fix additional 2 missed frees in the patch
> > 'before yyabort-ing free components' and remove a redundant new_str
> > variable from the patch 'add parse events handle error' as spotted by
> > Stephane Eranian.
> >
> > The v4 patches address review comments from Jiri Olsa, turning a long
> > error message into a single warning, fixing the data type in a list
> > iterator and reordering patches.
> >
> > The v3 patches address review comments from Jiri Olsa improving commit
> > messages, handling ENOMEM errors from strdup better, and removing a
> > printed warning if an invalid event is passed.
> >
> > The v2 patches are preferable to an earlier proposed patch:
> >    perf tools: avoid reading out of scope array
> >
> > Ian Rogers (10):
> >   perf tools: add parse events handle error
> >   perf tools: move ALLOC_LIST into a function
> >   perf tools: avoid a malloc for array events
> >   perf tools: splice events onto evlist even on error
> >   perf tools: ensure config and str in terms are unique
> >   perf tools: add destructors for parse event terms
> >   perf tools: before yyabort-ing free components
> >   perf tools: if pmu configuration fails free terms
> >   perf tools: add a deep delete for parse event terms
> >   perf tools: report initial event parsing error
> >
> >  tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/kvm-stat.c |   9 +-
> >  tools/perf/builtin-stat.c               |   2 +
> >  tools/perf/builtin-trace.c              |  16 +-
> >  tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c         |   3 +-
> >  tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c           |   2 +-
> >  tools/perf/util/parse-events.c          | 239 +++++++++++----
> >  tools/perf/util/parse-events.h          |   7 +
> >  tools/perf/util/parse-events.y          | 390 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >  tools/perf/util/pmu.c                   |  32 +-
> >  9 files changed, 511 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.24.0.432.g9d3f5f5b63-goog
>
> --
>
> - Arnaldo
>
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