Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] perf stat: Avoid metric-only segv

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 12:50 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> Cycles is recognized as part of a hard coded metric in stat-shadow.c,
> it may call print_metric_only with a NULL fmt string leading to a
> segfault. Handle the NULL fmt explicitly.
>
> Fixes: 088519f318be ("perf stat: Move the display functions to stat-display.c")
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
> Note, the fixes tag is to a refactor that moved the function. The bug
> existed before this.

Yeah I noticed that.

> ---
>  tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> index 8c61f8627ebc..b7d00a538d70 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/stat-display.c
> @@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ static void print_metric_only(struct perf_stat_config *config,
>         if (color)
>                 mlen += strlen(color) + sizeof(PERF_COLOR_RESET) - 1;
>
> -       color_snprintf(str, sizeof(str), color ?: "", fmt, val);
> +       color_snprintf(str, sizeof(str), color ?: "", fmt ?: "", val);

I was thinking about fixing the callers to pass valid format strings
but it seems they don't care about the output string anyway so
I think it's fine.

Thanks,
Namhyung


>         fprintf(out, "%*s ", mlen, str);
>         os->first = false;
>  }
> --
> 2.43.0.687.g38aa6559b0-goog
>