[PATCH] perf symbols: symbol-minimal.c causes random fd to beclosed

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 21:47:42 EST



I hit a cryptic failure when testing a recent version
of perf:

# perf report
write failure on standard output: Bad file descriptor

The issue is in commit b68e2f91 (perf symbols: Introduce symsrc
structure). symsrc__destroy() does a close(ss->fd) but
ss->fd is only initialised in the symbol-elf.c case and
not for symbol-minimal.c.

The issue has been around for a while however most people
will build with libelf which wont use the symbol-minimal.c
code.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.8+
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
index 2d2dd05..3528204 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ int symsrc__init(struct symsrc *ss, struct dso *dso __maybe_unused,
goto out_close;

ss->type = type;
+ ss->fd = fd;

return 0;
out_close:
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