linux/tools/perf
Adrian Hunter 3a4acda1ec perf tools: Fix thread lifetime related segfaut in intel_pt
intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() creates a pt->unknown_thread thread
that eventually needs to be freed by the last thread__put() on it, when
its refcount hits zero, which may happen in
intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() error handling path and triggers the
following segfault, which would happen as well at intel_pt_free, when
tools using this intel_pt codebase frees up resources:

  # perf record -I -e intel_pt/tsc=1,noretcomp=1/u /bin/ls
  0  a  anaconda-ks.cfg  bin   perf.data	perf.data.old  perf-f23-bringup.todo
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.217 MB perf.data ]
  #
  # perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
  Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
  intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  #

The problem is: there's a union in 'struct thread' combines a list_head
and a rb_node. The standard life cycle of a thread is: init rb_node in
the constructor, insert it into machine->threads rbtree using rb_node,
move it to machine->dead_threads using list_head, clean in the last
thread__put: list_del_init(&thread->node).

In the above command, it clean a thread before adding it into list,
causes the above segfault.

Since pt->unknown_thread will never live in an rbtree, initialize its
list node so that when list_del_init() is done on it we don't segfault.

After this patch:

  # perf script -F event,comm,pid,tid,time,addr,ip,sym,dso,iregs
  Samples for 'instructions:u' event do not have IREGS attribute set. Cannot print 'iregs' field.
  intel_pt_synth_events: failed to synthesize 'instructions' event type
  0x248 [0x88]: failed to process type: 70
  #

Reported-by: Tong Zhang <ztong@vt.edu>
Reported-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454296865-19749-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-02-02 12:51:11 -03:00
..
Documentation perf tools: Add more usage tips 2016-01-12 12:42:07 -03:00
arch perf tests: Remove wrong semicolon in while loop in CQM test 2016-01-26 11:14:06 -03:00
bench perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
config perf build: Introduce FEATURES_DUMP make variable 2016-01-15 16:32:00 -03:00
python perf python: Support the PERF_RECORD_SWITCH event 2015-10-07 19:41:50 -03:00
scripts perf script: Add stat-cpi.py script 2016-01-06 20:11:16 -03:00
tests perf build: Pass O option to kernel makefile in build-test 2016-01-15 16:32:00 -03:00
trace/strace/groups perf trace: Add read/write to the file group 2015-09-04 13:22:06 -03:00
ui perf annotate browser: Fix behaviour of Shift-Tab with nothing focussed 2016-01-26 11:14:25 -03:00
util perf tools: Fix thread lifetime related segfaut in intel_pt 2016-02-02 12:51:11 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Add Intel PT instruction decoder 2015-08-17 11:11:36 -03:00
Build perf tools: Set and pass DOCDIR to builtin-report.c 2016-01-12 12:42:07 -03:00
CREDITS
MANIFEST perf tools: Add missing sources to perf's MANIFEST 2016-01-11 12:09:25 -03:00
Makefile perf tools: Allow shuffling the build tests 2015-11-05 11:39:54 -03:00
Makefile.perf perf build: Introduce FEATURES_DUMP make variable 2016-01-15 16:32:00 -03:00
builtin-annotate.c perf tools: Pass evlist to setup_sorting() 2016-01-06 20:11:11 -03:00
builtin-bench.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-config.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-data.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-diff.c perf diff: Use perf_hpp__register_sort_field interface 2016-01-08 12:59:30 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evlist: Add --trace-fields option to show trace fields 2016-01-08 14:23:02 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-lock.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-mem.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf record: Add --buildid-all option 2016-01-12 12:42:07 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf tools: Fallback to srcdir/Documentation/tips.txt 2016-01-12 12:42:08 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf script: Align event name properly 2016-01-08 12:57:26 -03:00
builtin-stat.c perf stat: Fix recort_usage typo 2016-01-12 11:13:52 -03:00
builtin-timechart.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf report/top: Add --raw-trace option 2016-01-06 20:11:12 -03:00
builtin-trace.c perf subcmd: Create subcmd library 2015-12-17 14:27:14 -03:00
builtin-version.c perf tools: Move cmd_version() to builtin-version.c 2015-12-09 13:42:03 -03:00
builtin.h perf tools: Add 'perf config' command 2015-11-23 18:31:24 -03:00
command-list.txt perf tools: Do not show trace command if it's not compiled in 2016-01-08 12:46:17 -03:00
design.txt perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt 2014-03-18 18:17:06 -03:00
perf-archive.sh perf archive: Make 'f' the last parameter for tar 2012-09-17 13:10:42 -03:00
perf-completion.sh perf tools: Avoid confusion with preloaded bash function for perf bash completion 2015-03-19 13:53:27 -03:00
perf-read-vdso.c perf tools: Build programs to copy 32-bit compatibility 2014-10-29 10:32:48 -02:00
perf-sys.h perf tools: Move generic barriers out of perf-sys.h 2015-05-08 16:05:08 -03:00
perf-with-kcore.sh perf tools: Fix perf-with-kcore handling of arguments containing spaces 2015-08-06 16:48:27 -03:00
perf.c perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line 2016-01-08 13:15:46 -03:00
perf.h perf record: Add ability to name registers to record 2015-08-31 18:01:33 -03:00