From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: symbols: dso__load(): remove check of file on uninitialized memory
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:51:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160624115112.GD10142@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d026547-6805-fe34-3430-67ae979eed57@pengutronix.de>
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 09:54:22AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 06/24/2016 08:43 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 04:20:21PM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> >> In commit "403567217d3f perf symbols: Do not read symbols/data from
> >> device files" a check to uninitialzied memory was added. This leads to
> >> the following valgrind output:
> >>
> >> ==24515== Syscall param stat(file_name) points to uninitialised byte(s)
> >> ==24515== at 0x75B26D5: _xstat (in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.22.so)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4E548D: stat (stat.h:454)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4E548D: is_regular_file (util.c:687)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4A5BEE: dso__load (symbol.c:1435)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__load (map.c:289)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__find_symbol (map.c:333)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4835B3: thread__find_addr_location (event.c:1300)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: add_callchain_ip (machine.c:1652)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: thread__resolve_callchain_sample (machine.c:1906)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B9E7D: thread__resolve_callchain (machine.c:1958)
> >> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_event (builtin-script.c:795)
> >> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_sample_event (builtin-script.c:920)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: perf_evlist__deliver_sample (session.c:1192)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: machines__deliver_event (session.c:1229)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: perf_session__deliver_event (session.c:1286)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: ordered_events__deliver_event (session.c:114)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: __ordered_events__flush (ordered-events.c:207)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: ordered_events__flush.part.3 (ordered-events.c:274)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_user_event (session.c:1325)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_event (session.c:1451)
> >> ==24515== Address 0x807c6a0 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 4,096 alloc'd
> >> ==24515== at 0x4C29C0F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4A5BCB: dso__load (symbol.c:1421)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__load (map.c:289)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__find_symbol (map.c:333)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4835B3: thread__find_addr_location (event.c:1300)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: add_callchain_ip (machine.c:1652)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: thread__resolve_callchain_sample (machine.c:1906)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4B9E7D: thread__resolve_callchain (machine.c:1958)
> >> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_event (builtin-script.c:795)
> >> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_sample_event (builtin-script.c:920)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: perf_evlist__deliver_sample (session.c:1192)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: machines__deliver_event (session.c:1229)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: perf_session__deliver_event (session.c:1286)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: ordered_events__deliver_event (session.c:114)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: __ordered_events__flush (ordered-events.c:207)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: ordered_events__flush.part.3 (ordered-events.c:274)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_user_event (session.c:1325)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_event (session.c:1451)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C0EAC: __perf_session__process_events (session.c:1804)
> >> ==24515== by 0x4C0EAC: perf_session__process_events (session.c:1858)
> >>
> >> This patch fixes the problem by removing the check.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 403567217d3f perf symbols: Do not read symbols/data from device files
> >> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
> >> ---
> >> tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 3 +--
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> >> index 8a747dc6cf86..b4070daeb17f 100644
> >> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> >> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
> >> @@ -1432,8 +1432,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
> >> * Read the build id if possible. This is required for
> >> * DSO_BINARY_TYPE__BUILDID_DEBUGINFO to work
> >> */
> >> - if (is_regular_file(name) &&
> >> - filename__read_build_id(dso->long_name, build_id, BUILD_ID_SIZE) > 0)
> >> + if (filename__read_build_id(dso->long_name, build_id, BUILD_ID_SIZE) > 0)
> >> dso__set_build_id(dso, build_id);
> >
> > ouch copy&paste error.. we better fix it properly,
> > could you please check attached patch?
>
> The use of uninitialized memory is gone, but the "--symfs" option is
> ignored:
>
> > stat("/lib/libpthread-2.20.so", 0x7ffe440c1270) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> You'll look for the dso in the root file system not in the sysroot.
that seems like unrelated to the 'use of uninitialized memory' issue, right?
I can't see how the patch I sent could do that..
thanks,
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-24 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-23 14:20 [PATCH] perf: symbols: dso__load(): remove check of file on uninitialized memory Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-06-24 6:43 ` Jiri Olsa
2016-06-24 7:54 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-06-24 11:51 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2016-06-24 11:56 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-07-21 7:21 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-07-21 7:54 ` Jiri Olsa
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