From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B66BC3A5A1 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CB120856 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:37:00 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1566495420; bh=R75vZH8WAXHU5KHvvbT7kh+7MT4AbmQf3QKW+xyOarU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=PSe6XUzoBdGccD8T+WZPvCqSrTH0MT9PMZpMjodHZOgz/2pP70jESCvnDSZZcqaDi SkxTp0Dbq9q4eNGriD/V8BdNUXDjZJO/0/+jv0NQwEge9ZPvgvOIsXddfCm0ivk6EQ 2Lw8EsHNhf6+SJejjLnsxUW+BFuAItcQtggDVc+4= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2392571AbfHVRg7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:36:59 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:46644 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2404296AbfHVRYn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:24:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (wsip-184-188-36-2.sd.sd.cox.net [184.188.36.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF2DE2342E; Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:24:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1566494682; bh=R75vZH8WAXHU5KHvvbT7kh+7MT4AbmQf3QKW+xyOarU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=zmu+itXdTIyVBTNxq+4uYwr6+78fZeO0Nd8nWzKGPeuwYoAxqJ8uKCQvnLbdRpXJK TqCEBdlzfeF6KO2jX9XL/0V5fE3mdyuxv8kKzvgU7UmcBnXuvUCzy6KVx6FRntCLC5 trFNYkl9dUGr4+iNxZ1QGtkcSXYx76cHZHKdUwRI= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo , Alexander Shishkin , Ian Rogers , Jiri Olsa , Mark Drayton , Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Song Liu , Stephane Eranian , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.14 27/71] perf header: Fix use of unitialized value warning Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:19:02 -0700 Message-Id: <20190822171729.053382991@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.23.0 In-Reply-To: <20190822171726.131957995@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20190822171726.131957995@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Upstream commit 20f9781f491360e7459c589705a2e4b1f136bee9 ] When building our local version of perf with MSAN (Memory Sanitizer) and running the perf record command, MSAN throws a use of uninitialized value warning in "tools/perf/util/util.c:333:6". This warning stems from the "buf" variable being passed into "write". It originated as the variable "ev" with the type union perf_event* defined in the "perf_event__synthesize_attr" function in "tools/perf/util/header.c". In the "perf_event__synthesize_attr" function they allocate space with a malloc call using ev, then go on to only assign some of the member variables before passing "ev" on as a parameter to the "process" function therefore "ev" contains uninitialized memory. Changing the malloc call to zalloc to initialize all the members of "ev" which gets rid of the warning. To reproduce this warning, build perf by running: make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=memory\ -fsanitize-memory-track-origins" (Additionally, llvm might have to be installed and clang might have to be specified as the compiler - export CC=/usr/bin/clang) then running: tools/perf/perf record -o - ls / | tools/perf/perf --no-pager annotate\ -i - --stdio Please see the cover letter for why false positive warnings may be generated. Signed-off-by: Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Mark Drayton Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190724234500.253358-2-nums@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/perf/util/header.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c index baec3e9833256..f03ba775f8be6 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c @@ -2990,7 +2990,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_attr(struct perf_tool *tool, size += sizeof(struct perf_event_header); size += ids * sizeof(u64); - ev = malloc(size); + ev = zalloc(size); if (ev == NULL) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.20.1