Re: [PATCH] perf buildid: Avoid copy of uninitialized memory

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Jan 20 2023 - 00:05:11 EST


Em Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:29:30PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 08:08:13AM -0800, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 10:57 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > build_id__init only copies the buildid data up to size leaving the
> > > rest of the data array uninitialized. Copying the full array during
> > > synthesis means the written event contains uninitialized memory. This
> > > was detected by the Clang/LLVM memory sanitizer.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
> > > index 3ab6a92b1a6d..348d05e4ec03 100644
> > > --- a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
> > > +++ b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
> > > @@ -2219,7 +2219,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_build_id(struct perf_tool *tool, struct dso *pos, u16
> > >
> > > len = pos->long_name_len + 1;
> > > len = PERF_ALIGN(len, NAME_ALIGN);
> > > - memcpy(&ev.build_id.build_id, pos->bid.data, sizeof(pos->bid.data));
> > > + memcpy(&ev.build_id.build_id, pos->bid.data, pos->bid.size);
> >
> > Ping. Should be an uncontroversial change to fix a copy of
> > uninitialized memory into the perf.data file during synthesis.
>
> Indeed, applied.

Humm, don't we better do it as:

+ memcpy(&ev.build_id.build_id, pos->bid.data, min(pos->bid.size, sizeof(pos->bid.data));

Lemme check what is setting that pos->bid.size....

Things like sysfs__read_build_id() that does such checks, but perhaps we
should be defensive and do it in this function as well?

- Arnaldo