Re: [PATCH] building libtraceevent with clang

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Feb 13 2017 - 11:25:12 EST


Em Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 02:14:08PM -0500, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:03:17 -0300
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > + case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND:
> > + extend = read_4(kbuf, ptr);
> > + extend <<= TS_SHIFT;
> > + extend += delta;
> > + delta = extend;
> > + ptr += 4;
> > + /* Fall through */

> No, actually, the length should be zeroed here.

> length = 0;

> As the ptr is placed passed the metadata. At the end of this case
> statement, the ptr will be after the metadata. The length is
> to represent the length of the data that is part of the event. The
> index is the ptr - start_data + length. As there's no data to this type
> of event, it should be zero.

> When I add length = 0, I get more events from my old 2.6.30 trace.dat
> file :-/ I'll have to update my tests.

> Care to send another patch?

I have this now in my tree, and since the patch is basically yours, I
just made myself the reporter and you the author, please ack.


commit 1fb82b6cba967afde11957099a9ef440cf8c2248
Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 13 13:18:29 2017 -0300

tools lib traceevent: Initialize lenght on OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP

A undefined value was being used for the OLD_RING_BUFFER_TYPE_TIME_STAMP
case entry, as the 'lenght' variable was not being initialized, fix it.

Caught by the reporter when building tools/perf/ using clang, which emmitted
this warning:

kbuffer-parse.c:312:7: warning: variable 'length' is used uninitialized whenever switch case is taken [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND:
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
kbuffer-parse.c:339:29: note: uninitialized use occurs here
kbuf->next = kbuf->index + length;
^~~~~~
kbuffer-parse.c:297:21: note: initialize the variable 'length' to silence this warning
unsigned int length;
^
= 0

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210141408.5eeb6e91@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
index 65984f1c2974..2009cb7d9675 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/kbuffer-parse.c
@@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ static unsigned int old_update_pointers(struct kbuffer *kbuf)
extend += delta;
delta = extend;
ptr += 4;
+ lenght = 0;
break;

case OLD_RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: