Re: "perf ftrace" segfault because ->cpus!=NULL but ->all_cpus==NULL

[Jiri Olsa]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 12:37:14PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> I was clumsily trying to use "perf ftrace" from git master (I might
> very well be using it wrong), and it's falling over with a NULL deref.
> I don't really understand the perf code, but it looks to me like it
> might be related to Andi Kleen's refactoring that introduced
> evlist->all_cpus?
> 
> I think the problem is that evlist_close() assumes that ->cpus!=NULL
> implies ->all_cpus!=NULL, but perf_evlist__propagate_maps() doesn't
> set ->all_cpus if the evlist is empty.
> 
> Here's the crash I encountered:
> 
> root@vm:~# /linux-llvm/tools/perf/perf ftrace -a -T kmem_cache_alloc
> failed to reset ftrace
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> root@vm:~# gdb /linux-llvm/tools/perf/perf core
> [...]
> Core was generated by `/linux-llvm/tools/perf/perf ftrace -a -T
> kmem_cache_alloc'.
> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> #0  perf_cpu_map__cpu (cpus=0x0, idx=idx@entry=0) at cpumap.c:250
> [...]
> (gdb) list
> 245 return cpus;
> 246 }
> 247
> 248 int perf_cpu_map__cpu(const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus, int idx)
> 249 {
> 250 if (idx < cpus->nr)
> 251 return cpus->map[idx];
> 252
> 253 return -1;
> 254 }
> (gdb) print cpus
> $1 = (const struct perf_cpu_map *) 0x0
> (gdb) bt
> #0  perf_cpu_map__cpu (cpus=0x0, idx=idx@entry=0) at cpumap.c:250
> #1  0x00005579cbf38731 in evlist__close
> (evlist=evlist@entry=0x5579cd1c22c0) at util/evlist.c:1222
> #2  0x00005579cbf388f6 in evlist__delete (evlist=0x5579cd1c22c0) at
> util/evlist.c:152
> #3  0x00005579cbf389c1 in evlist__delete (evlist=<optimized out>) at
> util/evlist.c:148
> #4  0x00005579cbe9e3b5 in cmd_ftrace (argc=0, argv=0x7ffe818a16e0) at
> builtin-ftrace.c:520
> #5  0x00005579cbf2287d in run_builtin (p=0x5579cc2a9740
> <commands+672>, argc=4, argv=0x7ffe818a16e0) at perf.c:312
> #6  0x00005579cbe96baa in handle_internal_command
> (argv=0x7ffe818a16e0, argc=4) at perf.c:364
> #7  run_argv (argcp=<synthetic pointer>, argv=<synthetic pointer>) at perf.c:408
> #8  main (argc=4, argv=0x7ffe818a16e0) at perf.c:538
> (gdb) frame 1
> #1  0x00005579cbf38731 in evlist__close
> (evlist=evlist@entry=0x5579cd1c22c0) at util/evlist.c:1222
> 1222 evlist__for_each_cpu(evlist, i, cpu) {
> (gdb) print evlist
> $2 = (struct evlist *) 0x5579cd1c22c0
> (gdb) print *evlist
> $3 = {core = {entries = {next = 0x5579cd1c22c0, prev =
> 0x5579cd1c22c0}, nr_entries = 0, has_user_cpus = false, cpus =
> 0x5579cd1b8fe0, all_cpus = 0x0, threads = 0x5579cd1c2d60,
>     nr_mmaps = 0, mmap_len = 0, pollfd = {nr = 0, nr_alloc = 0,
> nr_autogrow = 64, entries = 0x0, priv = 0x0}, heads = {{first = 0x0}
> <repeats 256 times>}, mmap = 0x0, mmap_ovw = 0x0,
>     mmap_first = 0x0, mmap_ovw_first = 0x0}, nr_groups = 0, enabled =
> false, id_pos = 0, is_pos = 0, combined_sample_type = 0,
> bkw_mmap_state = BKW_MMAP_NOTREADY, workload = {cork_fd = 0,
>     pid = -1}, mmap = 0x0, overwrite_mmap = 0x0, selected = 0x0, stats
> = {total_period = 0, total_non_filtered_period = 0, total_lost = 0,
> total_lost_samples = 0, total_aux_lost = 0,
>     total_aux_partial = 0, total_invalid_chains = 0, nr_events = {0
> <repeats 82 times>}, nr_non_filtered_samples = 0, nr_lost_warned = 0,
> nr_unknown_events = 0, nr_invalid_chains = 0,
>     nr_unknown_id = 0, nr_unprocessable_samples = 0,
> nr_auxtrace_errors = {0, 0}, nr_proc_map_timeout = 0}, env = 0x0,
> trace_event_sample_raw = 0x0, first_sample_time = 0,
>   last_sample_time = 0, thread = {th = 0, done = 0}}
> (gdb)

oops, ftrace is using evlist without event ;-) so all_cpus
will not get initialized..

Andi, should we initialize evlist::all_cpus with the first
cpus we get, like in the patch below?


thanks,
jirka


---
diff --git a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
index ae9e65aa2491..5b9f2ca50591 100644
--- a/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
+++ b/tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ void perf_evlist__set_maps(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
 		evlist->threads = perf_thread_map__get(threads);
 	}
 
+	if (!evlist->all_cpus && cpus)
+		evlist->all_cpus = perf_cpu_map__get(cpus);
+
 	perf_evlist__propagate_maps(evlist);
 }