From 444d28663936e286c752f05feca44d6041b1fce4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:28:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix piped mode read code In __perf_session__process_pipe_events(), there was a risk we would read more than what a union perf_event struct can hold. this could happen in case, perf is reading a file which contains new record types it does not know about and which are larger than anything it knows about. In general, perf is supposed to skip records it does not understand, but in pipe mode, those have to be read and ignored. The fixed size header contains the size of the record, but that size may be larger than union perf_event, yet it was used as the backing to the read in: union perf_event event; void *p; size = event->header.size; p = &event; p += sizeof(struct perf_event_header); if (size - sizeof(struct perf_event_header)) { err = readn(self->fd, p, size - sizeof(struct perf_event_header)); We fix this by allocating a buffer based on the size reported in the header. We reuse the buffer as much as we can. We realloc in case it becomes too small. In the common case, the performance impact is negligible. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337081295-10303-3-git-send-email-eranian@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/session.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c index 17c9ace445c4..93d355d27109 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/session.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c @@ -1098,8 +1098,9 @@ volatile int session_done; static int __perf_session__process_pipe_events(struct perf_session *self, struct perf_tool *tool) { - union perf_event event; - uint32_t size; + union perf_event *event; + uint32_t size, cur_size = 0; + void *buf = NULL; int skip = 0; u64 head; int err; @@ -1108,8 +1109,14 @@ static int __perf_session__process_pipe_events(struct perf_session *self, perf_tool__fill_defaults(tool); head = 0; + cur_size = sizeof(union perf_event); + + buf = malloc(cur_size); + if (!buf) + return -errno; more: - err = readn(self->fd, &event, sizeof(struct perf_event_header)); + event = buf; + err = readn(self->fd, event, sizeof(struct perf_event_header)); if (err <= 0) { if (err == 0) goto done; @@ -1119,13 +1126,23 @@ more: } if (self->header.needs_swap) - perf_event_header__bswap(&event.header); + perf_event_header__bswap(&event->header); - size = event.header.size; + size = event->header.size; if (size == 0) size = 8; - p = &event; + if (size > cur_size) { + void *new = realloc(buf, size); + if (!new) { + pr_err("failed to allocate memory to read event\n"); + goto out_err; + } + buf = new; + cur_size = size; + event = buf; + } + p = event; p += sizeof(struct perf_event_header); if (size - sizeof(struct perf_event_header)) { @@ -1141,9 +1158,9 @@ more: } } - if ((skip = perf_session__process_event(self, &event, tool, head)) < 0) { + if ((skip = perf_session__process_event(self, event, tool, head)) < 0) { pr_err("%#" PRIx64 " [%#x]: failed to process type: %d\n", - head, event.header.size, event.header.type); + head, event->header.size, event->header.type); err = -EINVAL; goto out_err; } @@ -1158,6 +1175,7 @@ more: done: err = 0; out_err: + free(buf); perf_session__warn_about_errors(self, tool); perf_session_free_sample_buffers(self); return err;