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| author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> | 2013-10-02 17:46:39 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2013-10-11 19:17:40 +0400 |
| commit | a65cb4b9f8a777a715371c63c0525408048cea3e (patch) | |
| tree | 283b133e3f2e10fb308d668695806f5d1bdf3e3f /tools/perf/util/evlist.h | |
| parent | b81a48ea877e1a104dace1392d92f708ff208f97 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a65cb4b9f8a777a715371c63c0525408048cea3e.tar.xz | |
perf evlist: Fix perf_evlist__mmap_read event overflow
The perf_evlist__mmap_read used 'union perf_event' as a placeholder for
event crossing the mmap boundary.
This is ok for sample shorter than ~PATH_MAX. However we could grow up
to the maximum sample size which is 16 bits max.
I hit this overflow issue when using 'perf top -G dwarf' which produces
sample with the size around 8192 bytes. We could configure any valid
sample size here using: '-G dwarf,size'.
Using array with sample max size instead for the event placeholder. Also
adding another safe check for the dynamic size of the user stack.
TODO: The 'struct perf_mmap' is quite big now, maybe we could use some
lazy allocation for event_copy size.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1380721599-24285-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/evlist.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h index 871b55ab5dee..722618f84c53 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/evlist.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct perf_mmap { void *base; int mask; unsigned int prev; - union perf_event event_copy; + char event_copy[PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE]; }; struct perf_evlist { |