Re: [PATCH] perf inject: correct event attribute sizes

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:42:04AM +0100, Al Grant escreveu:
> When perf inject reads a perf.data file from an older version of perf,
> it writes event attributes into the output with the original size field,
> but lays them out as if they had the size currently used. Readers see
> a corrupt file. Update the size field to match the layout.
> 
> From: Denis Nikitin <denik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Al Grant <al.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ok, so the author is Denis, has he provided his Signed-off-by?

- Arnaldo
 
>  tools/perf/util/header.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index 9cf4efdcbbbd..762eb94bd532 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -3326,6 +3326,14 @@ int perf_session__write_header(struct
> perf_session *session,
>         attr_offset = lseek(ff.fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);
> 
>         evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
> +               if (evsel->core.attr.size < sizeof(evsel->core.attr)) {
> +                       /*
> +                        * We are likely in "perf inject" and have read +
> * from an older file. Update attr size so that
> +                        * reader gets the right offset to the ids.
> +                        */
> +                       evsel->core.attr.size = sizeof(evsel->core.attr);
> +               }
>                 f_attr = (struct perf_file_attr){
>                         .attr = evsel->core.attr,
>                         .ids  = {

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- Arnaldo