Re: [PATCH] perf tools: avoid segv in pmu_resolve_param_term

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 09:41:35AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> PE_TERMS may set the config to NULL, avoid dereferencing this in
> pmu_resolve_param_term. Error detected by LLVM's libFuzzer.
> To reproduce the segv run:
> $ perf record -e 'm/event=?,time/' ls
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/pmu.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> index e8d348988026..1a6e36353407 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/pmu.c
> @@ -988,13 +988,17 @@ static int pmu_resolve_param_term(struct parse_events_term *term,
>  	struct parse_events_term *t;
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(t, head_terms, list) {
> -		if (t->type_val == PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NUM) {
> -			if (!strcmp(t->config, term->config)) {
> -				t->used = true;
> -				*value = t->val.num;
> -				return 0;
> -			}
> -		}
> +		if (t->type_val != PARSE_EVENTS__TERM_TYPE_NUM)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		if (t->config == NULL && term->config != NULL)
> +			continue;

hum, I might be missing something but should above condition
be more like this?

		if (t->config == NULL || term->config == NULL)
			continue;

jirka

> +		else if (strcmp(t->config, term->config))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		t->used = true;
> +		*value = t->val.num;
> +		return 0;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (verbose > 0)
> -- 
> 2.24.0.432.g9d3f5f5b63-goog
>