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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
	dwarves@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 19/31] dwarves: Fix variable shadowing in __cus__find_struct_by_name()
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:07:19 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729190733.72876-20-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260729190733.72876-1-acme@kernel.org>

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

The inner loop declared 'struct tag *tag' which shadowed the outer
'struct tag *tag = NULL' at function scope.  When the inner lookup
succeeded and we broke out of the loop, the function returned the
outer (still NULL) tag instead of the found one.

This broke any tool that loads CUs without a steal callback and then
calls cus__find_struct_by_name() — notably ctracer.  Tools like pahole
and pfunct were unaffected because they use a steal callback to process
each CU as it arrives, calling per-CU cu__find_struct_by_name() which
has no shadowing issue.

Before: ctracer loads 3291 CUs, cus__find_struct_by_name() returns NULL
After:  ctracer loads 3291 CUs, cus__find_struct_by_name() finds the struct

Fixes: fb99cad539e58638 ("dwarf_loader: Parallel DWARF loading")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 dwarves.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dwarves.c b/dwarves.c
index 5c9d83a6dee897c2..94bab301d598695d 100644
--- a/dwarves.c
+++ b/dwarves.c
@@ -1049,7 +1049,8 @@ static struct tag *__cus__find_struct_by_name(struct cus *cus, struct cu **cu, c
 	cus__lock(cus);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(pos, &cus->cus, node) {
-		struct tag *tag = __cu__find_struct_by_name(pos, name, include_decls, unions, id);
+		/* Don't shadow the outer 'tag' — we need to return it */
+		tag = __cu__find_struct_by_name(pos, name, include_decls, unions, id);
 		if (tag != NULL) {
 			if (cu != NULL)
 				*cu = pos;
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-29 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-29 19:07 [PATCHES 00/31] pahole: Bug fixes and small improvements Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 01/31] cmake: Update minimum required version from 3.5 to 3.10 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 02/31] Fix -Wsign-compare warnings across the codebase Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 03/31] btf_encoder: Fix interior pointer free and missing NULL check Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 04/31] dwarves: Fix missing list head initialization in type__clone_members Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 05/31] pahole: Fix instance memory leak on early returns in prototype__stdio_fprintf_value Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 06/31] ctf_loader, libctf: Fix error path resource leaks Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 07/31] dwarves: Don't search for holes before member byte sizes are cached Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 08/31] dwarf_loader: Allocate type_dcu via dwarf_cu__new to fix dangling stack pointer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 09/31] dwarf_loader: Fix annotation failure leaks in variable and typedef creation Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 10/31] btf_encoder: Use btf_encoder__tag_type() for all type ID computations Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 11/31] pahole: Fix --errno typo that decrements instead of negating Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 12/31] dwarves: Fix heap buffer overflow in languages__parse realloc Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 13/31] btf_encoder: Fix early cleanup crashes in btf_encoder__new/delete Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 14/31] btf_encoder, libctf: Add elf_strptr NULL checks and fix kfunc bounds Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 15/31] dwarf_loader: Fix --fixup_silly_bitfields condition check Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 16/31] dwarf_loader: Skip libdw__lock when elfutils is built thread-safe Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 17/31] dwarf_loader: Fix data race in tag__init() decl_file string cache Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 18/31] pahole: Fix parse_btf_features("all") being a silent no-op Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 20/31] dutil: Add exec_objcopy() shell-injection-safe helper Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 21/31] btf_encoder: Fall back to objcopy when llvm-objcopy is not available Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 22/31] dwarf_loader, btf_loader: Replace stale FIXME/XXX comments with explanations Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 23/31] pahole: Skip inline expansions during BTF encoding Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 24/31] pahole: Use fseek for seekable files in --prettify and --seek_bytes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 25/31] pahole: Guard pipe_seek() against negative offsets Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 26/31] gobuffer: Remove 5 dead functions found via coverage analysis Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 27/31] dwarves: Remove 6 " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 28/31] pfunct, dwarves_fprintf: Mark file-local functions as static Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 29/31] btf_encoder: Fix multi-dimensional array encoding Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 30/31] btf_loader: Fix multi-dimensional array loading Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-07-29 19:07 ` [PATCH 31/31] btfdiff: Remove --flat_arrays now that pahole encodes multi dim arrays in BTF Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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