Re: [PATCH v1] libperf evlist: Avoid out-of-bounds access

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 20:58:30 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 1:46 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 11:08 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Parallel testing appears to show a race between allocating and setting
> > > evsel ids. As there is a bounds check on the xyarray it yields a segv
> > > like:
> > >
> > > ```
> > > AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
> > >
> > > =================================================================
> > >
> > > ==484408==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000010
> > >
> > > ==484408==The signal is caused by a WRITE memory access.
> > >
> > > ==484408==Hint: address points to the zero page.
> > >
> > > #0 0x55cef5d4eff4 in perf_evlist__id_hash tools/lib/perf/evlist.c:256
> > > #1 0x55cef5d4f132 in perf_evlist__id_add tools/lib/perf/evlist.c:274
> > > #2 0x55cef5d4f545 in perf_evlist__id_add_fd tools/lib/perf/evlistc:315
> > > #3 0x55cef5a1923f in store_evsel_ids util/evsel.c:3130
> > > #4 0x55cef5a19400 in evsel__store_ids util/evsel.c:3147
> > > #5 0x55cef5888204 in __run_perf_stat tools/perf/builtin-stat.c:832
> > > #6 0x55cef5888c06 in run_perf_stat tools/perf/builtin-stat.c:960
> > > #7 0x55cef58932db in cmd_stat tools/perf/builtin-stat.c:2878
> > > ...
> > > ```
> > >
> > > Avoid this crash by early exiting the perf_evlist__id_add_fd and
> > > perf_evlist__id_add is the access is out-of-bounds.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > While I'm ok with this change, the real fix would be changing
> > evsel_store__ids() to use xyarray__max_{x,y} for fd instead
> > of cpu and thread map numbers.
>
> So I'm not sure on how to code that fix. Could you take over looking
> at this? It reproduces for me with "perf test -v -p" when built with
> "-fsanitize=address".

Ok, but now I think that the fd array should have the same dimension
with the id array. I'm not sure where it can change but I'll take a look
later. Let's apply this one first.

Thanks,
Namhyung