linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 89/90] perf env: Do not return pointers to local variables

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Message-Id: <20200803121901.890561589@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  3 Aug 2020 14:19:51 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 89/90] perf env: Do not return pointers to local variables

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>

commit ebcb9464a2ae3a547e97de476575c82ece0e93e2 upstream.

It is possible to return a pointer to a local variable when looking up
the architecture name for the running system and no normalization is
done on that value, i.e. we may end up returning the uts.machine local
variable.

While this doesn't happen on most arches, as normalization takes place,
lets fix this by making that a static variable and optimize it a bit by
not always running uname(), only the first time.

Noticed in fedora rawhide running with:

  [perfbuilder@...f49d6e6e4 ~]$ gcc --version
  gcc (GCC) 10.0.1 20200216 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.8)

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/env.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/env.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/env.c
@@ -326,11 +326,11 @@ static const char *normalize_arch(char *
 
 const char *perf_env__arch(struct perf_env *env)
 {
-	struct utsname uts;
 	char *arch_name;
 
 	if (!env || !env->arch) { /* Assume local operation */
-		if (uname(&uts) < 0)
+		static struct utsname uts = { .machine[0] = '\0', };
+		if (uts.machine[0] == '\0' && uname(&uts) < 0)
 			return NULL;
 		arch_name = uts.machine;
 	} else