Re: [PATCH 2/2] Avoid raising segv using an obvious null dereference

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Sep 26 2019 - 11:24:26 EST


Em Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:59:24PM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> An optimized build such as:
> make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O3
> will turn the dereference operation into a ud2 instruction, raising a SIGILL
> rather than a SIGSEGV. Use raise(..) for correctness and clarity.
>
> Similar issues were addressed in Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo's patch:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/8/1234

Added:

Cc: Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo <nums@xxxxxxxxxx>

And:

Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a074865e60ed ("perf tools: Introduce perf hooks")

And:

Committer testing:

Before:

[root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
55: perf hooks : Ok
[root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
55: perf hooks :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 17092
SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf hooks: Ok
[root@quaco ~]#

After:

[root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
55: perf hooks : Ok
[root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
55: perf hooks :
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 17909
SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
test child finished with 0
---- end ----
perf hooks: Ok
[root@quaco ~]#


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Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

> Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
> index dbc27199c65e..dd865e0bea12 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
> @@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ static void sigsegv_handler(int sig __maybe_unused)
> static void the_hook(void *_hook_flags)
> {
> int *hook_flags = _hook_flags;
> - int *p = NULL;
>
> *hook_flags = 1234;
>
> /* Generate a segfault, test perf_hooks__recover */
> - *p = 0;
> + raise(SIGSEGV);
> }
>
> int test__perf_hooks(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused)
> --
> 2.23.0.351.gc4317032e6-goog

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- Arnaldo