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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2026-04-11 01:08:54 +0300
committerNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2026-04-14 09:21:52 +0300
commit06452a412e5e89c62cd4917a457c5cfd43dc1ead (patch)
tree027f6b3b554b613eefdccf59ad8f6254db0f3920
parentf823d7efb81cd2a799dc386da4f9292fdc2c1dbe (diff)
downloadlinux-06452a412e5e89c62cd4917a457c5cfd43dc1ead.tar.xz
perf header: Bump up the max number of command line args allowed
We need to do some upper limit validation, bump up the arbitrary limit as per suggestion of Sashiko about command line wildcard expansion ending up with more than 32768 args. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260408172846.96360-1-acme%40kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/header.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index a2796b72adc4..22c44b6f0b09 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2795,8 +2795,11 @@ process_event_desc(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
return 0;
}
-// Some reasonable arbitrary max for the number of command line arguments
-#define MAX_CMDLINE_NR 32768
+/*
+ * Some arbitrary max for the number of command line arguments,
+ * Wildcards can expand and end up with tons of command line args.
+ */
+#define MAX_CMDLINE_NR 1048576
static int process_cmdline(struct feat_fd *ff, void *data __maybe_unused)
{