From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:41:50 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aMry3oh_qaV0ZI03@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aJ-V2ZsYpN8RDQ3M@google.com>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 01:17:29PM -0700, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 02:24:40PM +0100, Leo Yan wrote:
> > If a user specifies an AUX buffer larger than 2 GiB, the returned size
> > may exceed 0x80000000. Since the err variable is defined as a signed
> > 32-bit integer, such a value overflows and becomes negative.
> >
> > As a result, the perf record command reports an error:
> >
> > 0x146e8 [0x30]: failed to process type: 71 [Unknown error 183711232]
> >
> > Change the type of the err variable to a signed 64-bit integer to
> > accommodate large buffer sizes correctly.
> >
> > Reported-by: Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
> > Fixes: d5652d865ea7 ("perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more")
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,
- Arnaldo
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2025-08-08 13:24 [PATCH] perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB Leo Yan
2025-08-15 20:17 ` Namhyung Kim
2025-09-17 17:41 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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