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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf trace: Fix unaligned access for augmented args
Date: Thu,  2 Jan 2025 12:12:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250102201248.790841-1-namhyung@kernel.org> (raw)

Some version of compilers reported unaligned accesses in perf trace when
undefined-behavior sanitizer is on.  I found that it uses raw data in the
sample directly and assuming it's properly aligned.

Unlike other sample fields, the raw data is not 8-byte aligned because
there's a size field (u32) before the actual data.  So I added a static
buffer in syscall__augmented_args() and return it instead.  This is not
ideal but should work well as perf trace is single-threaded.

A better approach would be aligning the raw data by adding a 4-byte data
before the augmented args but I'm afraid it'd break the backward
compatibility.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Z2STgyD1p456Qqhg@google.com
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index e70e634fbfaf33f5..3f06411514c5b58a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -2582,7 +2582,6 @@ static int trace__fprintf_sample(struct trace *trace, struct evsel *evsel,
 
 static void *syscall__augmented_args(struct syscall *sc, struct perf_sample *sample, int *augmented_args_size, int raw_augmented_args_size)
 {
-	void *augmented_args = NULL;
 	/*
 	 * For now with BPF raw_augmented we hook into raw_syscalls:sys_enter
 	 * and there we get all 6 syscall args plus the tracepoint common fields
@@ -2600,10 +2599,24 @@ static void *syscall__augmented_args(struct syscall *sc, struct perf_sample *sam
 	int args_size = raw_augmented_args_size ?: sc->args_size;
 
 	*augmented_args_size = sample->raw_size - args_size;
-	if (*augmented_args_size > 0)
-		augmented_args = sample->raw_data + args_size;
+	if (*augmented_args_size > 0) {
+		static uintptr_t argbuf[1024]; /* assuming single-threaded */
+
+		if ((size_t)(*augmented_args_size) > sizeof(argbuf))
+			return NULL;
+
+		/*
+		 * The perf ring-buffer is 8-byte aligned but sample->raw_data
+		 * is not because it's preceded by u32 size.  Later, beautifier
+		 * will use the augmented args with stricter alignments like in
+		 * some struct.  To make sure it's aligned, let's copy the args
+		 * into a static buffer as it's single-threaded for now.
+		 */
+		memcpy(argbuf, sample->raw_data + args_size, *augmented_args_size);
 
-	return augmented_args;
+		return argbuf;
+	}
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static void syscall__exit(struct syscall *sc)
-- 
2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2025-01-02 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-02 20:12 Namhyung Kim [this message]
2025-01-06  8:20 ` [PATCH] perf trace: Fix unaligned access for augmented args Howard Chu
2025-01-09 18:46 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-01-09 21:10   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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