Re: [PATCH v1] libperf mmap: In user mmap rdpmc avoid undefined behavior
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Oct 02 2025 - 14:06:55 EST
On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 11:24:37AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> A shift left of a signed 64-bit s64 may overflow and result in
> undefined behavior caught by ubsan. Switch to a u64 instead.
Thanks, applied to perf-tools-next,
- Arnaldo
> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/perf/mmap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/mmap.c b/tools/lib/perf/mmap.c
> index c1a51d925e0e..ec124eb0ec0a 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/perf/mmap.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/perf/mmap.c
> @@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ int perf_mmap__read_self(struct perf_mmap *map, struct perf_counts_values *count
> idx = READ_ONCE(pc->index);
> cnt = READ_ONCE(pc->offset);
> if (pc->cap_user_rdpmc && idx) {
> - s64 evcnt = read_perf_counter(idx - 1);
> + u64 evcnt = read_perf_counter(idx - 1);
> u16 width = READ_ONCE(pc->pmc_width);
>
> evcnt <<= 64 - width;
> --
> 2.51.0.384.g4c02a37b29-goog
>