[tip:perf/urgent] perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in " perf bench all"

From: tip-bot for Patrick Palka
Date: Tue Mar 18 2014 - 04:30:18 EST


Commit-ID: 6eeefccdcfc2cc9697562e740bfe6c35fddd4e1c
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6eeefccdcfc2cc9697562e740bfe6c35fddd4e1c
Author: Patrick Palka <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:40:51 -0400
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:45:54 -0300

perf bench: Fix NULL pointer dereference in "perf bench all"

The for_each_bench() macro must check that the "benchmarks" field of a
collection is not NULL before dereferencing it because the "all"
collection in particular has a NULL "benchmarks" field (signifying that
it has no benchmarks to iterate over).

This fixes this NULL pointer dereference when running "perf bench all":

[root@ssdandy ~]# perf bench all
<SNIP>

# Running mem/memset benchmark...
# Copying 1MB Bytes ...

2.453675 GB/Sec
12.056327 GB/Sec (with prefault)

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@ssdandy ~]#

Signed-off-by: Patrick Palka <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394664051-6037-1-git-send-email-patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-bench.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
index e47f90c..8a987d2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-bench.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static struct collection collections[] = {

/* Iterate over all benchmarks within a collection: */
#define for_each_bench(coll, bench) \
- for (bench = coll->benchmarks; bench->name; bench++)
+ for (bench = coll->benchmarks; bench && bench->name; bench++)

static void dump_benchmarks(struct collection *coll)
{
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