From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/10] perf, tools, stat: Avoid memory overrun with -r
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:28:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190311202848.GC29294@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311202446.10210-3-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 01:24:38PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> When -r is used memory would get corrupted because the evsel->id array
> would get overrun. evsel->ids is a running counter of the last id.
> Normally this works fine, but with -r the same event is initialized
> multiple times, but not this counter, so it would keep growing
> beyond the array limit and corrupt random memory.
>
> Always reinitialize ->ids, and also add an assert to catch
> such overruns in the future.
>
> This fixes a perf segfault when running it from toplev.
This one should be Cc: stable
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-11 20:24 Misc improvements and bug fixes for perf Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 01/10] perf, tools, list: Filter metrics too Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 02/10] perf, tools, stat: Avoid memory overrun with -r Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:28 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 03/10] perf, tools, record: Allow to limit number of reported perf.data files Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 04/10] perf, tools, record: Clarify help for --switch-output Andi Kleen
2019-03-12 10:30 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 05/10] perf, report: Show all sort keys in help output Andi Kleen
2019-03-12 10:30 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-03-12 16:43 ` Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 06/10] perf, tools, report: Print better message for JITed code Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:33 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-03-11 20:48 ` Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 07/10] perf, tools, report: Indicate JITed code better in report Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 08/10] perf, tools, script: Support relative time Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 09/10] perf, tools, stat: Fix --no-scale Andi Kleen
2019-03-11 20:24 ` [PATCH v1 10/10] perf, tools, stat: Improve scaling Andi Kleen
2019-03-12 10:31 ` Misc improvements and bug fixes for perf Jiri Olsa
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