[tip:perf/urgent] perf report powerpc: Fix crash if callchain is empty

From: tip-bot for Sandipan Das
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 02:52:59 EST


Commit-ID: 143c99f6ac6812d23254e80844d6e34be897d3e1
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/143c99f6ac6812d23254e80844d6e34be897d3e1
Author: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:10:49 +0530
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:59:35 -0300

perf report powerpc: Fix crash if callchain is empty

For some cases, the callchain provided by the kernel may be empty. So,
the callchain ip filtering code will cause a crash if we do not check
whether the struct ip_callchain pointer is NULL before accessing any
members.

This can be observed on a powerpc64le system running Fedora 27 as shown
below.

# perf record -b -e cycles:u ls

Before:

# perf report --branch-history

perf: Segmentation fault
-------- backtrace --------
perf[0x1027615c]
linux-vdso64.so.1(__kernel_sigtramp_rt64+0x0)[0x7fff856304d8]
perf(arch_skip_callchain_idx+0x44)[0x10257c58]
perf[0x1017f2e4]
perf(thread__resolve_callchain+0x124)[0x1017ff5c]
perf(sample__resolve_callchain+0xf0)[0x10172788]
...

After:

# perf report --branch-history

Samples: 25 of event 'cycles:u', Event count (approx.): 2306870
Overhead Source:Line Symbol Shared Object
+ 11.60% _init+35736 [.] _init ls
+ 9.84% strcoll_l.c:137 [.] __strcoll_l libc-2.26.so
+ 9.16% memcpy.S:175 [.] __memcpy_power7 libc-2.26.so
+ 9.01% gconv_charset.h:54 [.] _nl_find_locale libc-2.26.so
+ 8.87% dl-addr.c:52 [.] _dl_addr libc-2.26.so
+ 8.83% _init+236 [.] _init ls
...

Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180611104049.11048-1-sandipan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c
index 3598b8b75d27..ef5d59a5742e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ int arch_skip_callchain_idx(struct thread *thread, struct ip_callchain *chain)
u64 ip;
u64 skip_slot = -1;

- if (chain->nr < 3)
+ if (!chain || chain->nr < 3)
return skip_slot;

ip = chain->ips[2];