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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: perf report: null ptr dereference in utils/env.c
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:04:08 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 04:13:45PM +0000, Odzioba, Lukasz wrote:
> Hi,
> Am I the only one getting segfaults in perf report (4.8-rc8/4.9rc-1)?
> It happens simply when I try to exit it.
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> perf_env__exit (env=env@entry=0x1fc4d00) at util/env.c:25
> (...)
> (gdb) list
> (...)
> 
> 24              for (i = 0; i < env->nr_numa_nodes; i++)
> 25                      cpu_map__put(env->numa_nodes[i].map);
> 26              zfree(&env->numa_nodes);
>  
>  (gdb) print env->nr_numa_nodes
> $1 = 2
>  (gdb) print env->numa_nodes
> $2 = (struct numa_node *) 0x0    
> 
> This line was introduced in the following patch:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9213995/

could you please try with Arnaldo's current perf/urgent branch
that has following patch:
  f957a5308dbb perf header: Set nr_numa_nodes only when we parsed all the data

is that ppc machine? how did you generate the perf.data?

thanks,
jirka