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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] perf dlfilter: Initialize addr_location before passing it to thread__find_symbol_fb()
Em Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 02:51:58PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 25/07/23 00:31, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 02:16:05PM -0700, Ian Rogers escreveu:
> >> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 2:09 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >> <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As thread__find_symbol_fb() will end up calling thread__find_map() and
> >>> it in turn will call these on uninitialized memory:
> >>>
> >>> maps__zput(al->maps);
> >>> map__zput(al->map);
> >>> thread__zput(al->thread);
> >>
> >> Normally there would be a addr_location__exit. It looks here like most
> >> values are copied in al_to_d_al, which copies reference counted values
> >> without doing appropriate gets. Perhaps add the gets in al_to_d_al and
> >> add the exit to make it clear there can't be addr_location related
> >> leaks here.

Or just make al_to_d_al use strdups for the strings it gets from
reference counter structs.

That or make the caller of ->resolve_address() provide a initialized
addr_location that it then exits.

- Arnaldo

> > I'll do that as well and add the addr_location__exit() then send a V2.
>
> The data is not valid outside the context of ->filter_event() or
> ->filter_event_early(), so the reference counts should not be changed.
> That probably needs to be made clearer in the documentation.



> >
> > - Arnaldo
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ian
> >>
> >>> Fixes: 0dd5041c9a0eaf8c ("perf addr_location: Add init/exit/copy functions")
> >>> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> >>> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> >>> Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>> Cc: Disha Goel <disgoel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> >>> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> >>> Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
> >>> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
> >>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> >>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
> >>> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>> tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c | 1 +
> >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c b/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c
> >>> index 46f74b2344dbb34c..798a53d7e6c9dfc5 100644
> >>> --- a/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c
> >>> +++ b/tools/perf/util/dlfilter.c
> >>> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static __s32 dlfilter__resolve_address(void *ctx, __u64 address, struct perf_dlf
> >>> if (!thread)
> >>> return -1;
> >>>
> >>> + addr_location__init(&al);
> >>> thread__find_symbol_fb(thread, d->sample->cpumode, address, &al);
> >>>
> >>> al_to_d_al(&al, &d_al);
> >>> --
> >>> 2.37.1
> >>>
> >
>

--

- Arnaldo

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