linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf stat-display: Check if snprintf()'s fmt argument is NULL

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Date:   Wed,  2 Aug 2023 12:03:16 +0800
From:   Kaige Ye <ye@...ge.org>
To:     peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        jolsa@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org, irogers@...gle.com,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com
Cc:     linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kaige Ye <ye@...ge.org>
Subject: [PATCH] perf stat-display: Check if snprintf()'s fmt argument is NULL

It is undefined behavior to pass NULL as snprintf()'s fmt argument.
Here is an example to trigger the problem:

  $ perf stat --metric-only -x, -e instructions -- sleep 1
  insn per cycle,
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

With this patch:

  $ perf stat --metric-only -x, -e instructions -- sleep 1
  insn per cycle,
  ,

Signed-off-by: Kaige Ye <ye@...ge.org>
---
 tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
index 7329b3340..e8936cffd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static void print_metric_csv(struct perf_stat_config *config __maybe_unused,
 		fprintf(out, "%s%s", config->csv_sep, config->csv_sep);
 		return;
 	}
-	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, val);
+	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt ?: "", val);
 	ends = vals = skip_spaces(buf);
 	while (isdigit(*ends) || *ends == '.')
 		ends++;
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static void print_metric_only_csv(struct perf_stat_config *config __maybe_unused
 	if (!valid_only_metric(unit))
 		return;
 	unit = fixunit(tbuf, os->evsel, unit);
-	snprintf(buf, sizeof buf, fmt, val);
+	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt ?: "", val);
 	ends = vals = skip_spaces(buf);
 	while (isdigit(*ends) || *ends == '.')
 		ends++;
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static void print_metric_only_json(struct perf_stat_config *config __maybe_unuse
 	if (!valid_only_metric(unit))
 		return;
 	unit = fixunit(tbuf, os->evsel, unit);
-	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, val);
+	snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt ?: "", val);
 	ends = vals = skip_spaces(buf);
 	while (isdigit(*ends) || *ends == '.')
 		ends++;
-- 
2.41.0