From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753365AbbCLHid (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:38:33 -0400 Received: from lgeamrelo04.lge.com ([156.147.1.127]:59240 "EHLO lgeamrelo04.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752658AbbCLHic (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 03:38:32 -0400 X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.177.220.203 X-Original-MAILFROM: namhyung@kernel.org From: Namhyung Kim To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa , LKML , David Ahern , Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim Subject: [PATCH 1/6] perf kmem: Fix segfault when invalid sort key is given Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:32:46 +0900 Message-Id: <1426145571-3065-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1426145571-3065-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> References: <1426145571-3065-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When it tries to free 'str', it was already updated by strsep() - so it needs to save the original pointer. # perf kmem stat -s xxx,hit Error: Unknown --sort key: 'xxx' *** Error in `perf': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000000e9e7b6 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x7198e)[0x7fc7e6e0d98e] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x76dee)[0x7fc7e6e12dee] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x775cb)[0x7fc7e6e135cb] ./perf[0x44a1b5] ./perf[0x490b20] ./perf(parse_options_step+0x173)[0x491773] ./perf(parse_options_subcommand+0xa7)[0x491fb7] ./perf(cmd_kmem+0x2bc)[0x44ae4c] ./perf[0x47aa13] ./perf(main+0x60a)[0x427a9a] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7fc7e6dbc800] ./perf(_start+0x29)[0x427bb9] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim --- tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c index f295141025bc..a0da5fb44b9e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-kmem.c @@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ static int setup_sorting(struct list_head *sort_list, const char *arg) { char *tok; char *str = strdup(arg); + char *pos = str; if (!str) { pr_err("%s: strdup failed\n", __func__); @@ -566,7 +567,7 @@ static int setup_sorting(struct list_head *sort_list, const char *arg) } while (true) { - tok = strsep(&str, ","); + tok = strsep(&pos, ","); if (!tok) break; if (sort_dimension__add(tok, sort_list) < 0) { -- 2.3.1