Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] perf: make build_cpu_topology skip offline/absent CPUs

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Feb 17 2017 - 10:36:32 EST


Em Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:10:25PM +0100, Jan Stancek escreveu:
> When build_cpu_topo() encounters offline/absent CPUs,
> it fails to find any sysfs entries and returns failure.
> This leads to build_cpu_topology() and write_cpu_topology()
> failing as well.
>
> Because HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY has not been written, read leaves
> cpu_topology_map NULL and we get NULL ptr deref at:
>
> ...
> cmd_test
> __cmd_test
> test_and_print
> run_test
> test_session_topology
> check_cpu_topology
>
> 36: Session topology :
> --- start ---

Please add two spaces before tool output, so that we can avoid breaking
scripts looking for --- as separator of patch message from patch
content.

Also look at 'git log file/you/are/modifying' to see the patch log
style, for this one I'm changing to:

perf header: Make build_cpu_topology skip offline/absent CPUs

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> test child forked, pid 14902
> templ file: /tmp/perf-test-4CKocW
> failed to write feature HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY
> perf: Segmentation fault
> Obtained 9 stack frames.
> ./perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x41) [0x5095f1]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x35250) [0x7f4b7c3c9250]
> ./perf(test_session_topology+0x1db) [0x490ceb]
> ./perf() [0x475b68]
> ./perf(cmd_test+0x5b9) [0x4763c9]
> ./perf() [0x4945a3]
> ./perf(main+0x69f) [0x427e8f]
> /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7f4b7c3b5b35]
> ./perf() [0x427fb9]
> test child interrupted
> ---- end ----
> Session topology: FAILED!
>
> This patch makes build_cpu_topology() skip offline/absent CPUs,
> by checking their presence against cpu_map built from online CPUs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Changes in v3:
> - make ret = -1 by default, so we fail in case build_cpu_topo
> doesn't run at all
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index d89c9c7ef4e5..ca0f12fb5fd3 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -503,24 +503,31 @@ static void free_cpu_topo(struct cpu_topo *tp)
>
> static struct cpu_topo *build_cpu_topology(void)
> {
> - struct cpu_topo *tp;
> + struct cpu_topo *tp = NULL;
> void *addr;
> u32 nr, i;
> size_t sz;
> long ncpus;
> int ret = -1;
> + struct cpu_map *map;
>
> ncpus = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
> if (ncpus < 0)
> return NULL;
>
> + /* build online CPU map */
> + map = cpu_map__new(NULL);
> + if (map == NULL) {
> + pr_debug("failed to get system cpumap\n");
> + return NULL;
> + }
> +
> nr = (u32)(ncpus & UINT_MAX);
>
> sz = nr * sizeof(char *);
> -
> addr = calloc(1, sizeof(*tp) + 2 * sz);
> if (!addr)
> - return NULL;
> + goto out_free;
>
> tp = addr;
> tp->cpu_nr = nr;
> @@ -530,10 +537,16 @@ static struct cpu_topo *build_cpu_topology(void)
> tp->thread_siblings = addr;
>
> for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
> + if (!cpu_map__has(map, i))
> + continue;
> +
> ret = build_cpu_topo(tp, i);
> if (ret < 0)
> break;
> }
> +
> +out_free:
> + cpu_map__put(map);
> if (ret) {
> free_cpu_topo(tp);
> tp = NULL;
> --
> 1.8.3.1