[PATCH v2 4/7] perf intel-tpebs: Avoid race when evlist is being deleted

[Ian Rogers]

Reading through the evsel->evlist may seg fault if a sample arrives
when the evlist is being deleted. Detect this case and ignore samples
arriving when the evlist is being deleted.

Fixes: bcfab08db7fb ("perf intel-tpebs: Filter non-workload samples")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/intel-tpebs.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-tpebs.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-tpebs.c
index 4ad4bc118ea5..3b92ebf5c112 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-tpebs.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-tpebs.c
@@ -162,9 +162,17 @@ static bool is_child_pid(pid_t parent, pid_t child)
 
 static bool should_ignore_sample(const struct perf_sample *sample, const struct tpebs_retire_lat *t)
 {
-	pid_t workload_pid = t->evsel->evlist->workload.pid;
-	pid_t sample_pid = sample->pid;
+	pid_t workload_pid, sample_pid = sample->pid;
 
+	/*
+	 * During evlist__purge the evlist will be removed prior to the
+	 * evsel__exit calling evsel__tpebs_close and taking the
+	 * tpebs_mtx. Avoid a segfault by ignoring samples in this case.
+	 */
+	if (t->evsel->evlist == NULL)
+		return true;
+
+	workload_pid = t->evsel->evlist->workload.pid;
 	if (workload_pid < 0 || workload_pid == sample_pid)
 		return false;
 
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