Re: [PATCH] perf symbols: symbol-minimal.c causes random fd to be closed

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>]

Em Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 01:47:25PM +1100, Anton Blanchard escreveu:
> 
> I hit a cryptic failure when testing a recent version
> of perf:
> 
>   # perf report
>   write failure on standard output: Bad file descriptor
> 
> The issue is in commit b68e2f91 (perf symbols: Introduce symsrc
> structure). symsrc__destroy() does a close(ss->fd) but
> ss->fd is only initialised in the symbol-elf.c case and
> not for symbol-minimal.c.
> 
> The issue has been around for a while however most people
> will build with libelf which wont use the symbol-minimal.c
> code.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.8+
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

This was fixed recently, yeah, should go to stable as well:

commit 779e24e2c777bffa9a6e3d5e821859e67008c98b
Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 4 16:23:01 2013 +0200

    perf symbols: Fix random fd closing with no libelf

> ---
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> index 2d2dd05..3528204 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ int symsrc__init(struct symsrc *ss, struct dso *dso __maybe_unused,
>  		goto out_close;
>  
>  	ss->type = type;
> +	ss->fd = fd;
>  
>  	return 0;
>  out_close: