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perf tools: Fix segfault accessing sample_id xyarray
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commit a668cc0 upstream.

perf_evsel::sample_id is an xyarray which can cause a segfault when
accessed beyond its size. e.g.

  # perf record -e intel_pt// -C 1 sleep 1
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  #

That is happening because a dummy event is opened to capture text poke
events accross all CPUs, however the mmap logic is allocating according
to the number of user_requested_cpus.

In general, perf sometimes uses the evsel cpus to open events, and
sometimes the evlist user_requested_cpus. However, it is not necessary
to determine which case is which because the opened event file
descriptors are also in an xyarray, the size of whch can be used
to correctly allocate the size of the sample_id xyarray, because there
is one ID per file descriptor.

Note, in the affected code path, perf_evsel fd array is subsequently
used to get the file descriptor for the mmap, so it makes sense for the
xyarrays to be the same size there.

Fixes: d1a1775 ("libperf: Adopt perf_evlist__mmap()/munmap() from tools/perf")
Fixes: 246eba8 ("perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.5+
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413114232.26914-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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ahunter6 authored and gregkh committed Apr 27, 2022
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions tools/lib/perf/evlist.c
Expand Up @@ -571,7 +571,6 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap_ops(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
{
struct perf_evsel *evsel;
const struct perf_cpu_map *cpus = evlist->cpus;
const struct perf_thread_map *threads = evlist->threads;

if (!ops || !ops->get || !ops->mmap)
return -EINVAL;
Expand All @@ -583,7 +582,7 @@ int perf_evlist__mmap_ops(struct perf_evlist *evlist,
perf_evlist__for_each_entry(evlist, evsel) {
if ((evsel->attr.read_format & PERF_FORMAT_ID) &&
evsel->sample_id == NULL &&
perf_evsel__alloc_id(evsel, perf_cpu_map__nr(cpus), threads->nr) < 0)
perf_evsel__alloc_id(evsel, evsel->fd->max_x, evsel->fd->max_y) < 0)
return -ENOMEM;
}

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