Re: [PATCH] perf: fix infinite loop with corrupted header

[David Ahern]

On 9/25/13 11:20 PM, Sonny Rao wrote:
> We recently ran into a corrupt perf data file which mostly looked okay
> but the section size for data was set to 0.  This caused perf report to
> get into an infinite loop in __perf_session_process_events().  Let's
> just avoid this by bailing early and reporting it if there's an
> invalid header.

Been suggested before:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/9/405

Other changes went in around that time as well. Are you still seeing the 
loop on latest source?

David
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