linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf test: Perf test 67 dumps core on s390

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Message-ID: <20200826113304.GC1059382@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:33:04 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        svens@...ux.ibm.com, gor@...ux.ibm.com, sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com,
        heiko.carstens@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf test: Perf test 67 dumps core on s390

Em Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 02:04:30PM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:12 AM Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Linux 5.9 introduced perf test case "Parse and process metrics" and
> > on s390 this test case always dumps core:

<SNIP>

> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@...ux.ibm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>

I'll add your comments and...
 
> This also shows up with address sanitizer on all architectures
> (perhaps change the patch title) and perhaps add a "Fixes: <commit>"
> tag.
> =================================================================
> ==4718==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address
> 0x55c93b4d59e8 at pc 0x55c93a1541e2 bp 0x7ffd24327c60 sp
> 0x7ffd24327c58
> READ of size 8 at 0x55c93b4d59e8 thread T0
>     #0 0x55c93a1541e1 in find_metric tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c:764:2
> > +++ b/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
> > @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ static struct pmu_event pme_test[] = {
> >  {
> >         .metric_expr    = "1/m3",
> >         .metric_name    = "M3",
> > +},
> > +{
> > +       .metric_expr    = NULL,
> > +       .metric_name    = NULL,
> > +       .metric_group   = NULL

No need to set all three to NULL, just one is enough and then the
compiler will zero out all the rest.

- Arnaldo