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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:42:26 -0700
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, 
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, 
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, James Clark <james.clark@....com>, 
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>, 
	Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Yicong Yang <yangyicong@...ilicon.com>, 
	Kajol Jain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>, Disha Goel <disgoel@...ux.ibm.com>, 
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, 
	linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] perf record: Delete session after stopping
 sideband thread

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:50 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:47 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > The session has a header in it which contains a perf env with
> > bpf_progs. The bpf_progs are accessed by the sideband thread and so
> > the sideband thread must be stopped before the session is deleted, to
> > avoid a use after free.  This error was detected by AddressSanitizer
> > in the following:
> >
> > ```
> > ==2054673==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x61d000161e00 at pc 0x55769289de54 bp 0x7f9df36d4ab0 sp 0x7f9df36d4aa8
> > READ of size 8 at 0x61d000161e00 thread T1
> >     #0 0x55769289de53 in __perf_env__insert_bpf_prog_info util/env.c:42
> >     #1 0x55769289dbb1 in perf_env__insert_bpf_prog_info util/env.c:29
> >     #2 0x557692bbae29 in perf_env__add_bpf_info util/bpf-event.c:483
> >     #3 0x557692bbb01a in bpf_event__sb_cb util/bpf-event.c:512
> >     #4 0x5576928b75f4 in perf_evlist__poll_thread util/sideband_evlist.c:68
> >     #5 0x7f9df96a63eb in start_thread nptl/pthread_create.c:444
> >     #6 0x7f9df9726a4b in clone3 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:81
> >
> > 0x61d000161e00 is located 384 bytes inside of 2136-byte region [0x61d000161c80,0x61d0001624d8)
> > freed by thread T0 here:
> >     #0 0x7f9dfa6d7288 in __interceptor_free libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:52
> >     #1 0x557692978d50 in perf_session__delete util/session.c:319
> >     #2 0x557692673959 in __cmd_record tools/perf/builtin-record.c:2884
> >     #3 0x55769267a9f0 in cmd_record tools/perf/builtin-record.c:4259
> >     #4 0x55769286710c in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:349
> >     #5 0x557692867678 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:402
> >     #6 0x557692867a40 in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:446
> >     #7 0x557692867fae in main tools/perf/perf.c:562
> >     #8 0x7f9df96456c9 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
> > ```
> >
> > Fixes: 657ee5531903 ("perf evlist: Introduce side band thread")
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
>
> Note, after this series I'm seeing parallel perf testing being as
> reliable as serial but parallel testing is nearly 3 times faster. I
> think after these changes land we can make parallel execution the
> default.

Ping.

Thanks,
Ian

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