[PATCH] perf session: Fix infinite loop on invalid perf.data file

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Mon Sep 30 2013 - 04:19:57 EST


From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>

perf-record updates the header in the perf.data file at termination.
Without this update perf-report (and other processing built-ins) it
caused an infinite loop when perf report (or something like) called.

This is because the algorithm in __perf_session__process_events()
depends on the data_size which is read from file header. Use file
size directly instead in this case to do the best-effort processing.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/header.c | 9 +++++++++
tools/perf/util/session.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 26441d0e571b..cedccde6a6b2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2753,6 +2753,15 @@ int perf_session__read_header(struct perf_session *session)
if (perf_file_header__read(&f_header, header, fd) < 0)
return -EINVAL;

+ /*
+ * Sanity check that perf.data was written cleanly; data size is
+ * initialized to 0 and updated only if the on_exit function is run.
+ * If data size is still 0 then the file contains only partial
+ * information. Just warn user and process it as much as it can.
+ */
+ if (f_header.data.size == 0)
+ pr_warning("Data size is 0. Was the record command properly terminated?\n");
+
nr_attrs = f_header.attrs.size / f_header.attr_size;
lseek(fd, f_header.attrs.offset, SEEK_SET);

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 6c1d4447c5b4..7bbd60c0a0ed 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ int __perf_session__process_events(struct perf_session *session,
file_offset = page_offset;
head = data_offset - page_offset;

- if (data_offset + data_size < file_size)
+ if (data_size && (data_offset + data_size < file_size))
file_size = data_offset + data_size;

progress_next = file_size / 16;
--
1.7.11.7

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