Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix crash due to null pointer dereference when iterating cpu map

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Mar 05 2020 - 10:28:05 EST


Em Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 06:47:19PM +0800, zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> From: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NULL pointer may be passed to perf_cpu_map__cpu and then cause the
> following crash.
>
> perf ftrace -G start_kernel ls
> failed to set tracing filters
> [ 208.710716] perf[341]: segfault at 4 ip 00000000567c7c98
> sp 00000000ff937ae0 error 4 in perf[56630000+1b2000]
> [ 208.724778] Code: fc ff ff e8 aa 9b 01 00 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d
> 76 00 55 89 e5 83 ec 18 65 8b 0d 14 00 00 00 89
> 4d f4 31 c9 8b 45 08 8b9
> Segmentation fault

I'm not being able to repro this here, what is the tree you are using?

- Arnaldo

> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x5677dc98 in perf_cpu_map__cpu (cpus=0x0, idx=0) at cpumap.c:250
> 250 cpumap.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) bt
> 0 0x5677dc98 in perf_cpu_map__cpu (cpus=0x0, idx=0) at cpumap.c:250
> 1 0x566790bd in evlist__close (evlist=0x56a6f470) at util/evlist.c:1222
> 2 0x566792aa in evlist__delete (evlist=evlist@entry=0x56a6f470)
> at util/evlist.c:152
> 3 0x5667936b in evlist__delete (evlist=0x56a6f470) at util/evlist.c:148
> 4 0x565efd39 in cmd_ftrace (argc=1, argv=0xffffdd18) at builtin-ftrace.c:520
> 5 0x56660ee7 in run_builtin (p=0x56993004 <commands+324>, argc=4,
> argv=0xffffdd18) at perf.c:312
> 6 0x565e7fae in handle_internal_command (argv=<optimized out>,
> argc=<optimized out>) at perf.c:364
> 7 run_argv (argcp=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at perf.c:408
> 8 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at perf.c:538
>
> Add null pointer check for iteration and NULL assignment for all_cpus.
> And there is no need to iterate if there is no cpus.
>
> Signed-off-by: He Zhe <zhe.he@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c | 4 ++--
> tools/lib/perf/evlist.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c b/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
> index f93f4e703e4c..128386647ac0 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/perf/cpumap.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ struct perf_cpu_map *perf_cpu_map__new(const char *cpu_list)
>
> int perf_cpu_map__cpu(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus, int idx)
> {
> - if (idx < cpus->nr)
> + if (cpus && idx < cpus->nr)
> return cpus->map[idx];
>
> return -1;
> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int perf_cpu_map__cpu(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus, int idx)
>
> int perf_cpu_map__nr(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus)
> {
> - return cpus ? cpus->nr : 1;
> + return cpus ? cpus->nr : 0;
> }
>
> bool perf_cpu_map__empty(const struct perf_cpu_map *map)
> diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
> index ae9e65aa2491..d57adf3020fe 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ void perf_evlist__exit(struct perf_evlist *evlist)
> perf_cpu_map__put(evlist->cpus);
> perf_thread_map__put(evlist->threads);
> evlist->cpus = NULL;
> + evlist->all_cpus = NULL;
> evlist->threads = NULL;
> fdarray__exit(&evlist->pollfd);
> }
> --
> 2.24.1