From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>,
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] perf: fix segfault in `lock contention -b`
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 09:32:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260205163250.1980640-1-tycho@kernel.org> (raw)
From: "Tycho Andersen (AMD)" <tycho@kernel.org>
When run on a kernel without BTF info, perf crashes:
libbpf: kernel BTF is missing at '/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux', was CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled?
libbpf: failed to find valid kernel BTF
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00005555556915b7 in btf.type_cnt ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00005555556915b7 in btf.type_cnt ()
#1 0x0000555555691fbc in btf_find_by_name_kind ()
#2 0x00005555556920d0 in btf.find_by_name_kind ()
#3 0x00005555558a1b7c in init_numa_data (con=0x7fffffffd0a0) at util/bpf_lock_contention.c:125
#4 0x00005555558a264b in lock_contention_prepare (con=0x7fffffffd0a0) at util/bpf_lock_contention.c:313
#5 0x0000555555620702 in __cmd_contention (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffea10) at builtin-lock.c:2084
#6 0x0000555555622c8d in cmd_lock (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffea10) at builtin-lock.c:2755
#7 0x0000555555651451 in run_builtin (p=0x555556104f00 <commands+576>, argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffea10)
at perf.c:349
#8 0x00005555556516ed in handle_internal_command (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffea10) at perf.c:401
#9 0x000055555565184e in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffe7fc, argv=0x7fffffffe7f0) at perf.c:445
#10 0x0000555555651b9f in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fffffffea10) at perf.c:553
Check if btf loading failed, and don't do anything with it in
init_numa_data(). This leads to the following error message, instead of
just a crash:
libbpf: kernel BTF is missing at '/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux', was CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled?
libbpf: failed to find valid kernel BTF
libbpf: kernel BTF is missing at '/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux', was CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled?
libbpf: failed to find valid kernel BTF
libbpf: Error loading vmlinux BTF: -ESRCH
libbpf: failed to load BPF skeleton 'lock_contention_bpf': -ESRCH
Failed to load lock-contention BPF skeleton
lock contention BPF setup failed
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen (AMD) <tycho@kernel.org>
CC: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
CC: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
---
tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
index 7b5671f13c53..8cd991b3f209 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_lock_contention.c
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ static void init_numa_data(struct lock_contention *con)
long last = -1;
int ret;
+ if (!con->btf)
+ return;
+
/*
* 'struct zone' is embedded in 'struct pglist_data' as an array.
* As we may not have full information of the struct zone in the
base-commit: 18f7fcd5e69a04df57b563360b88be72471d6b62
--
2.52.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-02-05 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-05 16:32 Tycho Andersen [this message]
2026-02-06 0:17 ` [PATCH v2] perf: fix segfault in `lock contention -b` Namhyung Kim
2026-02-06 21:59 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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