[PATCH 3/3] perf test: Initialize memory in dwarf-unwind

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Sat May 30 2020 - 04:20:50 EST


Avoid a false positive caused by assembly code in arch/x86.
In tests, zero the perf_event to avoid uninitialized memory uses.
Warnings were caught using clang with -fsanitize=memory.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c | 8 ++++++++
tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
index ef43be9b6ec2..4e40402a4f81 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ int test__arch_unwind_sample(struct perf_sample *sample,
return -1;
}

+#ifdef MEMORY_SANITIZER
+ /*
+ * Assignments to buf in the assembly function perf_regs_load aren't
+ * seen by memory sanitizer. Zero the memory to convince memory
+ * sanitizer the memory is initialized.
+ */
+ memset(buf, 0, sizeof(u64) * PERF_REGS_MAX);
+#endif
perf_regs_load(buf);
regs->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI;
regs->regs = buf;
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
index 2a0dac81f44c..2491d167bf76 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/dwarf-unwind.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static int init_live_machine(struct machine *machine)
union perf_event event;
pid_t pid = getpid();

+ memset(&event, 0, sizeof(event));
return perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events(NULL, &event, pid, pid,
mmap_handler, machine, true);
}
--
2.27.0.rc2.251.g90737beb825-goog