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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: fix infinite loop with corrupted header
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:34:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52443800.5080200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380172836-13936-1-git-send-email-sonnyrao@chromium.org>

On 9/25/13 11:20 PM, Sonny Rao wrote:
> We recently ran into a corrupt perf data file which mostly looked okay
> but the section size for data was set to 0.  This caused perf report to
> get into an infinite loop in __perf_session_process_events().  Let's
> just avoid this by bailing early and reporting it if there's an
> invalid header.

Been suggested before:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/9/405

Other changes went in around that time as well. Are you still seeing the 
loop on latest source?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26  5:20 [PATCH] perf: fix infinite loop with corrupted header Sonny Rao
2013-09-26 13:34 ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-09-26 13:46   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-26 13:59     ` Namhyung Kim
2013-09-26 14:06       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-27  1:33         ` Namhyung Kim
2013-09-26 17:33   ` Sonny Rao

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