Re: [PATCH] tools/perf: Fix segfault during perf record --off-cpu when debuginfo is not enabled

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2025-01-13T15:29:08Z

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 01:25:32PM -0800, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 04:18:32PM +0530, Athira Rajeev wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On 23 Dec 2024, at 7:28 PM, Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When kernel is built without debuginfo, running perf record with
> > > --off-cpu results in segfault as below:
> > >
> > > ./perf record --off-cpu -e dummy sleep 1
> > > libbpf: kernel BTF is missing at '/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux', was CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled?
> > > libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in /lib/modules/6.13.0-rc3+/build/vmlinux
> > > libbpf: failed to find valid kernel BTF
> > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > >
> > > The backtrace pointed to:
> > >
> > > #0 0x00000000100fb17c in btf.type_cnt ()
> > > #1 0x00000000100fc1a8 in btf_find_by_name_kind ()
> > > #2 0x00000000100fc38c in btf.find_by_name_kind ()
> > > #3 0x00000000102ee3ac in off_cpu_prepare ()
> > > #4 0x000000001002f78c in cmd_record ()
> > > #5 0x00000000100aee78 in run_builtin ()
> > > #6 0x00000000100af3e4 in handle_internal_command ()
> > > #7 0x000000001001004c in main ()
> > >
> > > Code sequence is:
> > > static void check_sched_switch_args(void)
> > > {
> > > struct btf *btf = btf__load_vmlinux_btf();
> > > const struct btf_type *t1, *t2, *t3;
> > > u32 type_id;
> > >
> > > type_id = btf__find_by_name_kind(btf, "btf_trace_sched_switch",
> > > BTF_KIND_TYPEDEF);
> > >
> > > btf__load_vmlinux_btf fails when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF is not enabled.
> > > Here bpf__find_by_name_kind calls btf__type_cnt with NULL btf
> > > value and results in segfault. To fix this, add a check to see if
> > > btf is not NULL before invoking bpf__find_by_name_kind
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,

- Arnaldo