[PATCH 1/1] perf tools: Fix thread lifetime related segfaut in intel_pt

[Adrian Hunter]

intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() creates a pt->unknown_thread thread
that eventually needs to be freed by the last thread__put() on it, when
its refcount hits zero, which may happen in
intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() error handling path and triggers the
following segfault, which would happen as well at intel_pt_free, when
tools using this intel_pt codebase frees up resources:

  # perf record -I -e intel_pt/tsc=1,noretcomp=1/u /bin/ls
  0  a  anaconda-ks.cfg  bin   perf.data	perf.data.old  perf-f23-bringup.todo
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.217 MB perf.data ]
  #
  # perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
  Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
  intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  #

The problem is: there's a union in 'struct thread' combines a list_head
and a rb_node. The standard life cycle of a thread is: init rb_node in
the constructor, insert it into machine->threads rbtree using rb_node,
move it to machine->dead_threads using list_head, clean in the last
thread__put: list_del_init(&thread->node).

In the above command, it clean a thread before adding it into list,
causes the above segfault.

Since pt->unknown_thread will never live in an rbtree, initialize its
list node so that when list_del_init() is done on it we don't segfault.

After this patch:

  # perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
  Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
  intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
  0x248 [0x88]: failed to process type: 70
  #

Reported-by: Tong Zhang <ztong@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454296865-19749-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index 81a2eb77ba7f..05d815851be1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -2068,6 +2068,15 @@ int intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_free_queues;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Since this thread will not be kept in any rbtree not in a
+	 * list, initialize its list node so that at thread__put() the
+	 * current thread lifetime assuption is kept and we don't segfault
+	 * at list_del_init().
+	 */
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pt->unknown_thread->node);
+
 	err = thread__set_comm(pt->unknown_thread, "unknown", 0);
 	if (err)
 		goto err_delete_thread;
-- 
2.5.0