From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: jolsa@kernel.org, acme@redhat.com,
alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, mpetlan@redhat.com,
namhyung@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] perf tools: Fix segfault in cpu_cache_level__read()" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:20:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <157055523366201@kroah.com> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 4.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 0216234c2eed1367a318daeb9f4a97d8217412a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:52:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix segfault in cpu_cache_level__read()
We release wrong pointer on error path in cpu_cache_level__read
function, leading to segfault:
(gdb) r record ls
Starting program: /root/perf/tools/perf/perf record ls
...
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
double free or corruption (out)
Thread 1 "perf" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff7463798 in raise () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff7463798 in raise () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007ffff7443bac in abort () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007ffff74af8bc in __libc_message () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
#3 0x00007ffff74b92b8 in malloc_printerr () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
#4 0x00007ffff74bb874 in _int_free () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000010271260 in __zfree (ptr=0x7fffffffa0b0) at ../../lib/zalloc..
#6 0x0000000010139340 in cpu_cache_level__read (cache=0x7fffffffa090, cac..
#7 0x0000000010143c90 in build_caches (cntp=0x7fffffffa118, size=<optimiz..
...
Releasing the proper pointer.
Fixes: 720e98b5faf1 ("perf tools: Add perf data cache feature")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org: # v4.6+
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190912105235.10689-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 5722ff717777..0167f9697172 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev
scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/shared_cpu_list", path);
if (sysfs__read_str(file, &cache->map, &len)) {
- zfree(&cache->map);
+ zfree(&cache->size);
zfree(&cache->type);
return -1;
}
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