[PATCH 1/3] perf, evlist: Fix access of freed id arrays

Andi Kleen
2019-09-23T23:33:49Z

From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

I'm not fully sure if this is the correct fix, but without this
I get crashes on more complex perf stat metric usages. The problem
is that part of the state gets freed when a weak group fails,
but then is later still used. Just don't free the ids, we're
going to reuse them anyways on the weak group retry.

For example:

% perf stat -M IpB,IpCall,IpTB,IPC,Retiring_SMT,Frontend_Bound_SMT,Kernel_Utilization,CPU_Utilization --metric-only -a -I 1000 sleep 2

crashes and gives in valgrind:

=21527== Invalid write of size 8
==21527== at 0x4EE582: hlist_add_head (list.h:644)
==21527== by 0x4EFD3C: perf_evlist__id_hash (evlist.c:477)
==21527== by 0x4EFD99: perf_evlist__id_add (evlist.c:483)
==21527== by 0x4EFF15: perf_evlist__id_add_fd (evlist.c:524)
==21527== by 0x4FC693: store_evsel_ids (evsel.c:2969)
==21527== by 0x4FC76C: perf_evsel__store_ids (evsel.c:2986)
==21527== by 0x450DA7: __run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:519)
==21527== by 0x451285: run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:636)
==21527== by 0x454619: cmd_stat (builtin-stat.c:1966)
==21527== by 0x4D557D: run_builtin (perf.c:310)
==21527== by 0x4D57EA: handle_internal_command (perf.c:362)
==21527== by 0x4D5931: run_argv (perf.c:406)
==21527== Address 0x12e3f008 is 104 bytes inside a block of size 2,056 free'd
==21527== at 0x4839A0C: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:540)
==21527== by 0x627139: xyarray__delete (xyarray.c:32)
==21527== by 0x4F6BE4: perf_evsel__free_id (evsel.c:1253)
==21527== by 0x4FA11F: evsel__close (evsel.c:1994)
==21527== by 0x4F30A3: perf_evlist__reset_weak_group (evlist.c:1783)
==21527== by 0x450B47: __run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:466)
==21527== by 0x451285: run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:636)
==21527== by 0x454619: cmd_stat (builtin-stat.c:1966)
==21527== by 0x4D557D: run_builtin (perf.c:310)
==21527== by 0x4D57EA: handle_internal_command (perf.c:362)
==21527== by 0x4D5931: run_argv (perf.c:406)
==21527== by 0x4D5CAE: main (perf.c:531)
==21527== Block was alloc'd at
==21527== at 0x483AB1A: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:762)
==21527== by 0x627024: zalloc (zalloc.c:8)
==21527== by 0x627088: xyarray__new (xyarray.c:10)
==21527== by 0x4F6B20: perf_evsel__alloc_id (evsel.c:1237)
==21527== by 0x4FC74E: perf_evsel__store_ids (evsel.c:2983)
==21527== by 0x450DA7: __run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:519)
==21527== by 0x451285: run_perf_stat (builtin-stat.c:636)
==21527== by 0x454619: cmd_stat (builtin-stat.c:1966)
==21527== by 0x4D557D: run_builtin (perf.c:310)
==21527== by 0x4D57EA: handle_internal_command (perf.c:362)
==21527== by 0x4D5931: run_argv (perf.c:406)
==21527== by 0x4D5CAE: main (perf.c:531)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
---
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
index 095924aa186b..765303553041 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.c
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ struct evsel *perf_evlist__reset_weak_group(struct evlist *evsel_list,
is_open = false;
if (c2->leader == leader) {
if (is_open)
- evsel__close(c2);
+ perf_evsel__close(&evsel->core);
c2->leader = c2;
c2->core.nr_members = 0;
}
--
2.21.0