[tip:perf/core] perf tools: Validate perf event header size

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Commit-ID:  27389d7823f573be8eaff32fb4abe564e181eb71
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/27389d7823f573be8eaff32fb4abe564e181eb71
Author:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:20:27 +0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:53:48 -0300

perf tools: Validate perf event header size

The 'size' variable includes the header so must be at least
'sizeof(struct perf_event_header)'.  Error out immediately if that is
not the case.  Also don't byte-swap the header until it is actually
"fetched" from the mmap region.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372944040-32690-9-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/session.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 6b71b88..951a1cf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1094,8 +1094,10 @@ more:
 		perf_event_header__bswap(&event->header);
 
 	size = event->header.size;
-	if (size == 0)
-		size = 8;
+	if (size < sizeof(struct perf_event_header)) {
+		pr_err("bad event header size\n");
+		goto out_err;
+	}
 
 	if (size > cur_size) {
 		void *new = realloc(buf, size);
@@ -1164,8 +1166,12 @@ fetch_mmaped_event(struct perf_session *session,
 	if (session->header.needs_swap)
 		perf_event_header__bswap(&event->header);
 
-	if (head + event->header.size > mmap_size)
+	if (head + event->header.size > mmap_size) {
+		/* We're not fetching the event so swap back again */
+		if (session->header.needs_swap)
+			perf_event_header__bswap(&event->header);
 		return NULL;
+	}
 
 	return event;
 }
@@ -1245,7 +1251,7 @@ more:
 
 	size = event->header.size;
 
-	if (size == 0 ||
+	if (size < sizeof(struct perf_event_header) ||
 	    perf_session__process_event(session, event, tool, file_pos) < 0) {
 		pr_err("%#" PRIx64 " [%#x]: failed to process type: %d\n",
 		       file_offset + head, event->header.size,