From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 02/13] perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2026 21:39:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410004000.148138-3-acme@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410004000.148138-1-acme@kernel.org>
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
We need to do some upper limit validation, bump up the arbitrary limit
as per suggestion of Sashiko about command line wildcard expansion
ending up with more than 32768 args.
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408172846.96360-1-acme%40kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
| 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index a2796b72adc4d908..22c44b6f0b098f95 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2795,8 +2795,11 @@ process_event_desc(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
return 0;
}
-// Some reasonable arbitrary max for the number of command line arguments
-#define MAX_CMDLINE_NR 32768
+/*
+ * Some arbitrary max for the number of command line arguments,
+ * Wildcards can expand and end up with tons of command line args.
+ */
+#define MAX_CMDLINE_NR 1048576
static int process_cmdline(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
{
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-10 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-10 0:39 [PATCHES perf-tools-next v1 00/13] Sanity check perf.data headers Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 01/13] perf header: Validate nr_domains when reading HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 03/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NRCPUS and HEADER_CPU_DOMAIN_INFO Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 04/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CPU_TOPOLOGY Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 05/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_NUMA_TOPOLOGY Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 06/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_MEM_TOPOLOGY Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 07/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_MAPPINGS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 08/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_GROUP_DESC Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 09/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_CACHE Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 10/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_HYBRID_TOPOLOGY Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 11/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_PMU_CAPS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:39 ` [PATCH 12/13] perf header: Sanity check HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2026-04-10 0:40 ` [PATCH 13/13] perf header: Add sanity checks to HEADER_BPF_BTF processing Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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