[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 22/56] perf tests: Avoid raising SEGV using an obvious NULL dereference

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 18:08:56 EST


From: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit e3e2cf3d5b1fe800b032e14c0fdcd9a6fb20cf3b ]

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

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 ~]#

Fixes: a074865e60ed ("perf tools: Introduce perf hooks")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925195924.152834-2-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@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 a693bcf017ea2..44c16fd11bf6e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
@@ -20,12 +20,11 @@ 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)
--
2.20.1