[PATCH 4.17 240/324] perf script python: Fix dict reference counting

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-08-23T09:00:57Z

From: Janne Huttunen <janne.huttunen@nokia.com>

[ Upstream commit db0ba84c04ef2cf293aaada5ae97531127844d9d ]

The dictionaries are attached to the parameter tuple that steals the
references and takes care of releasing them when appropriate. The code
should not decrement the reference counts explicitly. E.g. if libpython
has been built with reference debugging enabled, the superfluous DECREFs
will trigger this error when running perf script:

Fatal Python error: Objects/tupleobject.c:238 object at
0x7f10f2041b40 has negative ref count -1
Aborted (core dumped)

If the reference debugging is not enabled, the superfluous DECREFs might
cause the dict objects to be silently released while they are still in
use. This may trigger various other assertions or just cause perf
crashes and/or weird and unexpected data changes in the stored Python
objects.

Signed-off-by: Janne Huttunen <janne.huttunen@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531133990-17485-1-git-send-email-janne.huttunen@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/scripting-engines/trace-event-python.c
@@ -676,14 +676,11 @@ static void python_process_tracepoint(st
if (_PyTuple_Resize(&t, n) == -1)
Py_FatalError("error resizing Python tuple");

- if (!dict) {
+ if (!dict)
call_object(handler, t, handler_name);
- } else {
+ else
call_object(handler, t, default_handler_name);
- Py_DECREF(dict);
- }

- Py_XDECREF(all_entries_dict);
Py_DECREF(t);
}

@@ -1003,7 +1000,6 @@ static void python_process_general_event

call_object(handler, t, handler_name);

- Py_DECREF(dict);
Py_DECREF(t);
}