[PATCH] perf annotate: Fix NULL pointer dereference in loongarch_call__parse
From: Jianping Liu
Date: Thu Apr 23 2026 - 01:31:24 EST
loongarch_call__parse() dereferences the return value of strchr()
without NULL check:
name = strchr(endptr, '<');
name++;
When objdump output for a 'bl' (branch-and-link) instruction does not
contain a symbol name delimited by '<' and '>' (e.g., when the call
target has no associated symbol), strchr() returns NULL, and the
subsequent name++ produces a wild pointer (0x1). This leads to a
segmentation fault when strchr() is later called with this invalid
pointer:
#0 __strchr_lasx () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 loongarch_call__parse () at arch/loongarch/annotate/instructions.c:29
#2 disasm_line__init_ins () at util/annotate.c:1205
...
The objdump line triggering the crash looks like:
bl 98824 # 0x9000000000641ea0
Note the absence of "<function_name>" after the address.
Add a NULL check for the return value of strchr() before dereferencing
it, consistent with s390_call__parse() which handles the same case
correctly.
Fixes: 4ca0d340ce20 ("perf annotate: Fix instruction association and parsing for LoongArch")
Signed-off-by: Jianping Liu <frankjpliu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ming Wang <wangming01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-loongarch.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-loongarch.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-loongarch.c
index c2addca77320..0179062a6cf9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-loongarch.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate-arch/annotate-loongarch.c
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ static int loongarch_call__parse(const struct arch *arch, struct ins_operands *o
ops->target.addr = strtoull(c, &endptr, 16);
name = strchr(endptr, '<');
+ if (name == NULL)
+ return -1;
+
name++;
if (arch->objdump.skip_functions_char &&
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