Re: [PATCH] perf hists browser: Fix segfault when showing callchain

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Jan 08 2015 - 10:08:35 EST


Em Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 03:04:36PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> When perf report on TUI shows callchain it checks first node has
> siblings to determine whether it needs to print percentage value. But
> it missed a case that first node is NULL. So sometimes it segfaults
> like below:

Thanks, applied.

> $ perf top -g
> perf: Segmentation fault
> -------- backtrace --------
> perf[0x4fcefb]
> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x33b20)[0x7f2a35839b20]
> perf(rb_next+0x8)[0x47d3d8]
> perf[0x4f6058]
> perf[0x4f833b]
> perf[0x4f8610]
> perf[0x4f209e]
> perf(ui_browser__run+0x3a)[0x4f2e6a]
> perf[0x4f94ee]
> perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x94)[0x4fbbf4]
> perf[0x444d10]
> /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x7314)[0x7f2a37070314]
> /usr/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7f2a358ee5bd]
>
> $ addr2line -e `which perf` 0x4f6058
> /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c:553
>
> I don't know why the backtrace didn't print some symbols..
>
> Fixes: 4087d11cd945 ("perf hists browser: Print overhead percent value for first-level callchain")
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> index e6bb04b5b09b..788506eef567 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
> @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static int hist_browser__show_callchain(struct hist_browser *browser,
> bool need_percent;
>
> node = rb_first(root);
> - need_percent = !!rb_next(node);
> + need_percent = node && rb_next(node);
>
> while (node) {
> struct callchain_node *child = rb_entry(node, struct callchain_node, rb_node);
> --
> 2.1.3
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