linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] perf lock: Don't free "lock_seq_stat" if read

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Message-Id: <20201021002619.28072-2-leo.yan@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 08:26:19 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        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>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] perf lock: Don't free "lock_seq_stat" if read_count isn't zero

When execute command "perf lock report", it hits failure and outputs log
as follows:

  perf: builtin-lock.c:623: report_lock_release_event: Assertion `!(seq->read_count < 0)' failed.
  Aborted

This is an imbalance issue.  The locking sequence structure
"lock_seq_stat" contains the reader counter and it is used to check if
the locking sequence is balance or not between acquiring and releasing.

If the tool wrongly frees "lock_seq_stat" when "read_count" isn't zero,
the "read_count" will be reset to zero when allocate a new structure at
the next time; thus it causes the wrong counting for reader and finally
results in imbalance issue.

To fix this issue, if detects "read_count" is not zero (means still
have read user in the locking sequence), goto the "end" tag to skip
freeing structure "lock_seq_stat".

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-lock.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
index 5cecc1ad78e1..a2f1e53f37a7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-lock.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ static int report_lock_release_event(struct evsel *evsel,
 	case SEQ_STATE_READ_ACQUIRED:
 		seq->read_count--;
 		BUG_ON(seq->read_count < 0);
-		if (!seq->read_count) {
+		if (seq->read_count) {
 			ls->nr_release++;
 			goto end;
 		}
-- 
2.17.1