Re: [PATCH] perf: add sanity check on addr in symbol__inc_addr_samples()

[Sorin Dumitru]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Em Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:30:16AM +0100, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
>>>
>>> Check the value of addr against the bounds of the symbol.
>>> This is needed given we compute an offset:
>>>       offset = addr - sym->start
>>>
>>> And we don't want the offset to become negative.
>>
>> I'll try and add a debug option to show the backtrace and values of
>> addr, sym, etc, so that we can fix the real problem.
>>
>> I.e. this function shouldn't be receiving any such invalid addresses, as
>> the symbol lookup was done, the symbol was found to be this one, then
>> why it would be out of bounds at this point?!
>>
> I tend to agree with you on this. But then I don't see why the first test
> was there.
>
>> - Arnaldo
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>>> index 011ed26..8248d80 100644
>>> --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c
>>> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ int symbol__inc_addr_samples(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map,
>>>
>>>       pr_debug3("%s: addr=%#" PRIx64 "\n", __func__, map->unmap_ip(map, addr));
>>>
>>> -     if (addr >= sym->end)
>>> +     if (addr >= sym->end || addr < sym->start)
>>>               return 0;
>>>
>>>       offset = addr - sym->start;
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I reported the same problem a couple of weeks ago. From what i can
tell the problem
is in perf_event__process_sample. When calling
perf_event__process_sample, we set
al->sym based on al->address. The symbol in the hist_entry is set to
the one from al
but in the call to perf_top__record_precise_ip we pass in the address
from the event
struct which is sometimes different than the one in the al structure.
When this situation
occurs, when calculating the offset in symbol__inc_addr_samples,
because addr is not
in the symbol [start,end] range, we get a very big value which causes
the segfault when
we use it to index something. I've sent a patch that works for me, but
i don't know if it's
the right solution at [1].

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/29/59
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