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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX PATCH] perf/probe: Fix to clear tev->nargs in clear_probe_trace_event()
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:31:18 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190920183118.GE4865@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <156856587999.25775.5145779959474477595.stgit@devnote2>

Em Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 01:44:40AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> Since add_probe_trace_event() can reuse tf->tevs[i] after
> calling clear_probe_trace_event(), this can make perf-probe
> crash if the 1st attempt of probe event finding fails to find
> an event argument, and the 2nd attempt fails to find probe point.
> 
> E.g.
>   $ perf probe -D "task_pid_nr tsk"
>   Failed to find 'tsk' in this function.
>   Failed to get entry address of warn_bad_vsyscall
>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Thanks, tested and applied!

- Arnaldo
 
> 
> Fixes: 092b1f0b5f9f ("perf probe: Clear probe_trace_event when add_probe_trace_event() fails")
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> index b8e0967c5c21..91cab5f669d2 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
> @@ -2331,6 +2331,7 @@ void clear_probe_trace_event(struct probe_trace_event *tev)
>  		}
>  	}
>  	zfree(&tev->args);
> +	tev->nargs = 0;
>  }
>  
>  struct kprobe_blacklist_node {

-- 

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-20 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-15 16:44 [BUGFIX PATCH] perf/probe: Fix to clear tev->nargs in clear_probe_trace_event() Masami Hiramatsu
2019-09-20 18:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2019-09-22 10:52 ` [tip: perf/urgent] perf probe: " tip-bot2 for Masami Hiramatsu

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