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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] perf/probe: Fix to handle errors in line_range searching
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 14:29:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioqlyaet.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140406125248.GI1164@krava.brq.redhat.com> (Jiri Olsa's message of "Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:52:48 +0200")

On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:52:48 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:48:31PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> As Namhyung reported(https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/1/89),
>> current perf-probe -L option doesn't handle errors in line-range
>> searching correctly. It causes a SEGV if an error occured in the
>> line-range searching.
>> 
>>   ----
>>   $ perf probe -x ./perf -v -L map__load
>>   Open Debuginfo file: /home/namhyung/project/linux/tools/perf/perf
>>   fname: util/map.c, lineno:153
>>   New line range: 153 to 2147483647
>>   path: (null)
>>   Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>   ----
>> 
>> This is because line_range_inline_cb() ignores errors
>> from find_line_range_by_line() which means that lr->path is
>> already freed on the error path in find_line_range_by_line().
>> As a result, get_real_path() accesses the lr->path and it
>> causes a NULL pointer exception.
>> 
>> This fixes line_range_inline_cb() to handle the error correctly,
>> and report it to the caller.
>> 
>> Anyway, this just fixes a possible SEGV bug, Namhyung's patch
>> is also required.
>
> will take both.. Namhyung, ack to Masami's change?

Yes,

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07  5:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01  4:47 [PATCH] perf probe: Fix --line option behavior Namhyung Kim
2014-04-01  5:01 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-04-01  7:21   ` Namhyung Kim
2014-04-01  7:40     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-04-02  5:48     ` [PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] perf/probe: Fix to handle errors in line_range searching Masami Hiramatsu
2014-04-06 12:52       ` Jiri Olsa
2014-04-07  5:29         ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2014-04-14 14:53       ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf probe: " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2014-04-14 14:53 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf probe: Fix --line option behavior tip-bot for Namhyung Kim

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