Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf report: Don't add to histogram when there is no thread found

[James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>]

On 30/06/2023 22:02, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:06 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:34 AM James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27/06/2023 18:19, Ian Rogers wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 9:58 AM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 9:43 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 5:02 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 05:10:58PM +0100, James Clark wrote:
>>>>>>>> thread__find_map() chooses to exit without assigning a thread to the
>>>>>>>> addr_location in some scenarios, for example when there are samples from
>>>>>>>> a guest and perf_guest == false. This results in a segfault when adding
>>>>>>>> to the histogram because it uses unguarded accesses to the thread member
>>>>>>>> of the addr_location.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looking at the commit 0dd5041c9a0ea ("perf addr_location: Add
>>>>>>> init/exit/copy functions") that introduced the change, I'm not sure if
>>>>>>> it's the intend behavior.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It might change maps and map, but not thread.  Then I think no reason
>>>>>>> to not set the al->thread at the beginning.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How about this?  Ian?
>>>>>>> (I guess we can get rid of the duplicate 'al->map = NULL' part)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seemed strange that we were failing to find a map (the function's
>>>>>> purpose) but then populating the address_location. The change below
>>>>>> brings back that somewhat odd behavior. I'm okay with reverting to the
>>>>>> old behavior, clearly there were users relying on it. We should
>>>>>> probably also copy maps and not just thread, as that was the previous
>>>>>> behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Probably.  But it used to support samples without maps and I think
>>>>> that's why it ignores the return value of thread__find_map().  So
>>>>> we can expect al.map is NULL and maybe fine to leave it for now.
>>>>>
>>>>> As machine__resolve() returns -1 if it gets no thread, we should set
>>>>> al.thread when it returns 0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I get your Acked-by?
>>>>
>>>> Yep:
>>>> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
>>>
>>> Looks good to me too. Should I resend the set with this change instead
>>> of my one?
>>
>> No, I can take care of that.  I'll take this as your Acked-by. :)
> 
> This part is applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Thanks Namhyung