Re: [PATCH perf/urgent] perf tools: Fix crash on synthesizing the unit

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Nov 12 2018 - 11:40:56 EST


Em Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> Adam reported a record command crash for simple session like:
> $ perf record -e cpu-clock ls

Thanks, tested, confirmed it fixes the problem, applied.

- Arnaldo

> with following backtrace:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 3543 ev = event_update_event__new(size + 1, PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__UNIT, evsel->id[0]);
> (gdb) bt
> #0 perf_event__synthesize_event_update_unit
> #1 0x000000000051e469 in perf_event__synthesize_extra_attr
> #2 0x00000000004445cb in record__synthesize
> #3 0x0000000000444bc5 in __cmd_record
> ...
>
> We synthesize an update event that needs to touch the evsel id array, which is
> not defined at that time. Fixing this by forcing the id allocation for events
> with their unit defined.
>
> Reflecting possible read_format ID bit in the attr tests.
>
> Cc: Adam Lee <leeadamrobert@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Yongxin Liu <yongxin.liu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201477
> Fixes: bfd8f72c2778 ("perf record: Synthesize unit/scale/... in event update")
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-hmt7oavo3w97btxl8sfq8n0i@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/tests/attr/base-record | 2 +-
> tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/attr/base-record b/tools/perf/tests/attr/base-record
> index 37940665f736..efd0157b9d22 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/attr/base-record
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/attr/base-record
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ size=112
> config=0
> sample_period=*
> sample_type=263
> -read_format=0
> +read_format=0|4
> disabled=1
> inherit=1
> pinned=0
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> index d37bb1566cd9..dbc0466db368 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
> @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ void perf_evsel__config(struct perf_evsel *evsel, struct record_opts *opts,
> attr->exclude_user = 1;
> }
>
> - if (evsel->own_cpus)
> + if (evsel->own_cpus || evsel->unit)
> evsel->attr.read_format |= PERF_FORMAT_ID;
>
> /*
> --
> 2.17.2