[PATCH 02/12] perf symbols: Fix ppc64 SEGV in dso__load_sym with debuginfo files

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-09-23T20:26:54Z

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

64bit PowerPC debuginfo files have an empty function descriptor section.
I hit a SEGV when perf tried to use this section for symbol resolution.

To fix this we need to check the section is valid and we can do this by
checking for type SHT_PROGBITS.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824065242.895239970@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 469c026..bb5d32f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1111,6 +1111,8 @@ static int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, const char *name,
}

opdsec = elf_section_by_name(elf, &ehdr, &opdshdr, ".opd", &opdidx);
+ if (opdshdr.sh_type != SHT_PROGBITS)
+ opdsec = NULL;
if (opdsec)
opddata = elf_rawdata(opdsec, NULL);

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