[PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Fix fault in error patch of intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info()

From: Wang Nan
Date: Sun Jan 31 2016 - 22:21:49 EST


In error processing path of intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() it calls
thread__zput() to clean and free pt->unknown_thread which is created by
thread__new(). However, when error raise, a segfault happen:

# perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The problem is: there's a union in 'struct thread' combines a list_head
and a rb_node. The standard life cycle of a thread is: init rb_node during
creating, inserted into machine->threads rbtree uses rb_node, move to
machine->dead_threads using list_head, clean by thread__put:
list_del_init(&thread->node).

In the above command, it clean a thread before adding it into list,
causes the above segfault.

This patch gives a fake list_head and link the thread into it before
calling thread__zput(), get rid of the segfault.

After this patch:
# perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
0x248 [0x88]: failed to process type: 70

Reported-by: Tong Zhang <ztong@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
index 81a2eb7..e2add63 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
@@ -2013,6 +2013,7 @@ int intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
struct auxtrace_info_event *auxtrace_info = &event->auxtrace_info;
size_t min_sz = sizeof(u64) * INTEL_PT_PER_CPU_MMAPS;
struct intel_pt *pt;
+ struct list_head dead_thread;
int err;

if (auxtrace_info->header.size < sizeof(struct auxtrace_info_event) +
@@ -2153,6 +2154,9 @@ int intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
return 0;

err_delete_thread:
+ RB_CLEAR_NODE(&pt->unknown_thread->rb_node);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dead_thread);
+ list_add(&pt->unknown_thread->node, &dead_thread);
thread__zput(pt->unknown_thread);
err_free_queues:
intel_pt_log_disable();
--
1.8.3.4