From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1] perf cgroup: Update metric leader in evlist__expand_cgroup
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:57:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260402215727.980993-1-irogers@google.com> (raw)
When the evlist is expanded the metric leader wasn't being updated. As
the original evsel is deleted this creates a use-after-free in
stat-shadow's prepare_metric. This was detected running the "perf stat
--bpf-counters --for-each-cgroup test" with sanitizers.
The change itself puts the copied evsel into the priv field (known
unused because of evsel__clone use) and then in a second pass over the
list updates the copied values using the priv pointer.
Fixes: d1c5a0e86a4e ("perf stat: Add --for-each-cgroup option")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
---
tools/perf/util/cgroup.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c b/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
index 040eb75f0804..1e0fef283826 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cgroup.c
@@ -417,7 +417,6 @@ static bool has_pattern_string(const char *str)
int evlist__expand_cgroup(struct evlist *evlist, const char *str, bool open_cgroup)
{
struct evlist *orig_list, *tmp_list;
- struct evsel *pos, *evsel, *leader;
struct rblist orig_metric_events;
struct cgroup *cgrp = NULL;
struct cgroup_name *cn;
@@ -452,6 +451,7 @@ int evlist__expand_cgroup(struct evlist *evlist, const char *str, bool open_cgro
goto out_err;
list_for_each_entry(cn, &cgroup_list, list) {
+ struct evsel *pos;
char *name;
if (!cn->used)
@@ -467,21 +467,41 @@ int evlist__expand_cgroup(struct evlist *evlist, const char *str, bool open_cgro
if (cgrp == NULL)
continue;
- leader = NULL;
+ /* copy the list and set to the new cgroup. */
evlist__for_each_entry(orig_list, pos) {
- evsel = evsel__clone(/*dest=*/NULL, pos);
+ struct evsel *evsel = evsel__clone(/*dest=*/NULL, pos);
+
if (evsel == NULL)
goto out_err;
+ /* stash the copy during the copying. */
+ pos->priv = &evsel->core;
cgroup__put(evsel->cgrp);
evsel->cgrp = cgroup__get(cgrp);
- if (evsel__is_group_leader(pos))
- leader = evsel;
- evsel__set_leader(evsel, leader);
-
evlist__add(tmp_list, evsel);
}
+ /* update leader information using stashed pointer to copy. */
+ evlist__for_each_entry(orig_list, pos) {
+ struct evsel *evsel = pos->priv;
+
+ if (evsel__leader(pos))
+ evsel->core.leader = evsel__leader(pos)->priv;
+
+ if (pos->metric_leader) {
+ evsel->metric_leader =
+ container_of(pos->metric_leader->priv, struct evsel, core);
+ }
+ if (pos->first_wildcard_match) {
+ evsel->first_wildcard_match =
+ container_of(pos->first_wildcard_match->priv,
+ struct evsel, core);
+ }
+ }
+ /* the stashed copy is no longer used. */
+ evlist__for_each_entry(orig_list, pos)
+ pos->priv = NULL;
+
/* cgroup__new() has a refcount, release it here */
cgroup__put(cgrp);
nr_cgroups++;
--
2.53.0.1213.gd9a14994de-goog
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-02 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-02 21:57 Ian Rogers [this message]
2026-04-03 6:33 ` [PATCH v1] perf cgroup: Update metric leader in evlist__expand_cgroup sun jian
2026-04-03 15:58 ` Ian Rogers
2026-04-04 6:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Ian Rogers
2026-04-06 17:49 ` Namhyung Kim
2026-04-06 17:52 ` Namhyung Kim
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