Re: perf segmentation fault from NULL dereference

[John Garry]

> > I am suspicious that this is a real issue, as this patch has been in
> > mainline for some time...
> >
> > This simple change fixes the issue me:
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > index 91e6d9c..f4fd826 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> > @@ -3576,7 +3576,7 @@ int perf_event__process_feature(struct perf_tool
> > *tool,
> >      int max, err;
> >      u16 type;
> >
> > -    if (!evsel->own_cpus)
> > +    if (!evsel->own_cpus || !(evsel->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID)) //
> > roundabout check for !evsel->id
> >          return 0;
> >
> >      ev = cpu_map_data__alloc(evsel->own_cpus, &size, &type, &max);
> >
> > It turns out that evsel->id is NULL on a call to
> > perf_event__process_feature(), which upsets this code:
> >
> >     ev->header.type = PERF_RECORD_EVENT_UPDATE;
> >     ev->header.size = (u16)size;
> >     ev->type = PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__CPUS;
> >     ev->id   = evsel->id[0];
> >
> > Please me let me know if a valid issue so we can get a fix in.
>
> yea, I can see how we can get here with event having
> its own CPUs, and we allocate the id array later at
> the time we map the event
>
> I wonder instead of skipping on this feature, we should
> allocate the id array, like below
>
> I did not test that.. need to find the server having event
> with its own cpus.. also need to make sure evsel->cpus is
> the way to go in here

Thanks for the fix, but I got this:
root@localhost:~# ./perf_debug_ record -e armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/ sleep 1
Couldn't synthesize evsel cpus.
root@localhost:~#


> thanks,
> jirka
>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index 1ec1d9bc2d63..fb2a0dab3978 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include "symbol.h"
>  #include "debug.h"
>  #include "cpumap.h"
> +#include "thread_map.h"
>  #include "pmu.h"
>  #include "vdso.h"
>  #include "strbuf.h"
> @@ -3579,6 +3580,11 @@ perf_event__synthesize_event_update_cpus(struct perf_tool *tool,
> 	if (!evsel->own_cpus)
> 		return 0;
>
> +	if (!evsel->id ||

for my test, evsel->id is NULL

> +	    perf_evsel__alloc_id(evsel, cpu_map__nr(evsel->cpus),
> +				 thread_map__nr(evsel->threads)))

and then this function is not called as we return immediately. So did 
you really want this:

if (!evsel->id && perf_evsel__alloc_id(...))
	return -ENOMEM;

This looks to work:

root@localhost:~# ./perf_debug_ record -e armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/ sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.001 MB perf.data (7 samples) ]
root@localhost:~# ./perf_debug_ report
# To display the perf.data header info, please use 
--header/--header-only option
#
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 7  of event 'armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/'
# Event count (approx.): 8260
#
# Overhead  Command  Shared Object      Symbol
# ........  .......  .................  ......................
#
    78.28%  sleep    libc-2.23.so       [.] 0x00000000000faef0
    20.53%  sleep    [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vmacache_find
     1.09%  sleep    [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_vma
     0.10%  perf_de  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] perf_event_exec


#
# (Cannot load tips.txt file, please install perf!)
#
root@localhost:~#


> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> 	ev = cpu_map_data__alloc(evsel->own_cpus, &size, &type, &max);
> 	if (!ev)
> 		return -ENOMEM;
>
> .


Thanks,
John