Re: [PATCH] perf tools: Check for null when copying nsinfo.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 10 2018 - 09:18:53 EST


Em Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 01:55:37PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 11:53:48PM +0200, Benno Evers wrote:
> > The argument to nsinfo__copy() was assumed to be valid, but some code paths
> > exist that will lead to NULL being passed.
> >
> > In particular, running 'perf script -D' on a perf.data file containing an
> > PERF_RECORD_MMAP event associating the '[vdso]' dso with pid 0 earlier in
> > the event stream will lead to a segfault.
> >
> > Since all calling code is already checking for a non-null return value,
> > just return NULL for this case as well.
>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It seems you missed the Signed-off-by though.

Yeah, please collect Namhyung's Acked-by and provide yours, i.e. your
patch should end with the following lines:


Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benno Evers <bevers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My git-am scripts will collect the Cc from the e-mail message and add
the Link: with the Message-id.

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> Thanks,
> Namhyung
>
>
> > ---
> > tools/perf/util/namespaces.c | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/namespaces.c b/tools/perf/util/namespaces.c
> > index 5be021701f34..cf8bd123cf73 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/namespaces.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/namespaces.c
> > @@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ struct nsinfo *nsinfo__copy(struct nsinfo *nsi)
> > {
> > struct nsinfo *nnsi;
> >
> > + if (nsi == NULL)
> > + return NULL;
> > +
> > nnsi = calloc(1, sizeof(*nnsi));
> > if (nnsi != NULL) {
> > nnsi->pid = nsi->pid;
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >