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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	pi3orama@163.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] perf hists browser: Add NULL pointer check to prevent crash
Date: Mon,  7 Dec 2015 17:06:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1449518801-18511-4-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449518801-18511-1-git-send-email-acme@kernel.org>

From: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>

Before this patch we can trigger a segfault by following steps:

 Step 0: Use 'perf record' to generate a perf.data without callchain

 Step 1: perf report

 Step 2: Use UP/DOWN to select an entry, don't press 'ENTER'

 Step 3: Use '/' to filter symbols, use a filter which returns
         empty result

 Step 4: Press 'ENTER' (notice here that the old selection is still
		        there. This is another problem)

 Step 5: Press 'ENTER' to annotate that symbol

 Step 6: Press 'LEFT' to go out.

 Result: segfault:

 perf: Segmentation fault
 -------- backtrace --------
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x53e568]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7fba75d3245f]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x537516]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x533fef]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x53b347]
 /home/wangnan/perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x96)[0x53d206]
 /home/wangnan/perf(cmd_report+0x1b9f)[0x442c7f]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x47efa2]
 /home/wangnan/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x432fa5]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7fba75d1ebd4]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x4330d4]

This is because in this case 'nd' could be NULL in
ui_browser__hists_seek(), but that function never checks it.

This patch adds checker for potential NULL pointer in that function.
After this patch the above steps won't segfault.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449455746-41952-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index fa9eb92c9e24..932e13d015b9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -1033,6 +1033,9 @@ static void ui_browser__hists_seek(struct ui_browser *browser,
 	 * and stop when we printed enough lines to fill the screen.
 	 */
 do_offset:
+	if (!nd)
+		return;
+
 	if (offset > 0) {
 		do {
 			h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
-- 
2.1.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-07 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-07 20:06 [GIT PULL 0/5] perf/urgent fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-12-07 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] perf buildid-list: Show running kernel build id fix Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-12-07 20:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] perf buildid-list: Fix return value of perf buildid-list -k Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-12-07 20:06 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-12-07 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] perf hists browser: Reset selection when refresh Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-12-07 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf hists browser: Fix segfault if use symbol filter in cmdline Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-12-08  5:09 ` [GIT PULL 0/5] perf/urgent fixes Ingo Molnar

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