Patch "perf tools: Fix copying of /proc/kcore" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf tools: Fix copying of /proc/kcore

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-tools-fix-copying-of-proc-kcore.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b5cabbcbd157a4bf5a92dfc85134999a3b55342d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 13:05:22 +0300
Subject: perf tools: Fix copying of /proc/kcore

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

commit b5cabbcbd157a4bf5a92dfc85134999a3b55342d upstream.

A copy of /proc/kcore containing the kernel text can be made to the
buildid cache. e.g.

	perf buildid-cache -v -k /proc/kcore

To workaround objdump limitations, a copy is also made when annotating
against /proc/kcore.

The copying process stops working from libelf about v1.62 onwards (the
problem was found with v1.63).

The cause is that a call to gelf_getphdr() in kcore__add_phdr() fails
because additional validation has been added to gelf_getphdr().

The use of gelf_getphdr() is a misguided attempt to get default
initialization of the Gelf_Phdr structure.  That should not be
necessary because every member of the Gelf_Phdr structure is
subsequently assigned.  So just remove the call to gelf_getphdr().

Similarly, a call to gelf_getehdr() in gelf_kcore__init() can be
removed also.

Committer notes:

Note to stable@kernel.org, from Adrian in the cover letter for this
patchkit:

The "Fix copying of /proc/kcore" problem goes back to v3.13 if you think
it is important enough for stable.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443089122-19082-3-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c |   33 ++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -1260,8 +1260,6 @@ out_close:
 static int kcore__init(struct kcore *kcore, char *filename, int elfclass,
 		       bool temp)
 {
-	GElf_Ehdr *ehdr;
-
 	kcore->elfclass = elfclass;
 
 	if (temp)
@@ -1278,9 +1276,7 @@ static int kcore__init(struct kcore *kco
 	if (!gelf_newehdr(kcore->elf, elfclass))
 		goto out_end;
 
-	ehdr = gelf_getehdr(kcore->elf, &kcore->ehdr);
-	if (!ehdr)
-		goto out_end;
+	memset(&kcore->ehdr, 0, sizeof(GElf_Ehdr));
 
 	return 0;
 
@@ -1337,23 +1333,18 @@ static int kcore__copy_hdr(struct kcore
 static int kcore__add_phdr(struct kcore *kcore, int idx, off_t offset,
 			   u64 addr, u64 len)
 {
-	GElf_Phdr gphdr;
-	GElf_Phdr *phdr;
-
-	phdr = gelf_getphdr(kcore->elf, idx, &gphdr);
-	if (!phdr)
-		return -1;
-
-	phdr->p_type	= PT_LOAD;
-	phdr->p_flags	= PF_R | PF_W | PF_X;
-	phdr->p_offset	= offset;
-	phdr->p_vaddr	= addr;
-	phdr->p_paddr	= 0;
-	phdr->p_filesz	= len;
-	phdr->p_memsz	= len;
-	phdr->p_align	= page_size;
+	GElf_Phdr phdr = {
+		.p_type		= PT_LOAD,
+		.p_flags	= PF_R | PF_W | PF_X,
+		.p_offset	= offset,
+		.p_vaddr	= addr,
+		.p_paddr	= 0,
+		.p_filesz	= len,
+		.p_memsz	= len,
+		.p_align	= page_size,
+	};
 
-	if (!gelf_update_phdr(kcore->elf, idx, phdr))
+	if (!gelf_update_phdr(kcore->elf, idx, &phdr))
 		return -1;
 
 	return 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from adrian.hunter@intel.com are

queue-4.2/perf-stat-get-correct-cpu-id-for-print_aggr.patch
queue-4.2/perf-probe-use-existing-routine-to-look-for-a-kernel-module-by-dso-short_name.patch
queue-4.2/perf-tools-fix-copying-of-proc-kcore.patch
queue-4.2/perf-header-fixup-reading-of-header_nrcpus-feature.patch