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Add a shell test that verifies perf report handles truncated perf.data
files gracefully — exiting with an error code rather than crashing with
SIGSEGV or SIGABRT.
The test records a simple workload, then truncates the resulting
perf.data at four offsets that exercise different parsing stages:
8 bytes — file header magic only
64 bytes — partial file header (attr section incomplete)
256 bytes — into the first events (partial event headers)
75% size — mid-stream truncation (partial event data)
For each truncation, perf report is run and the exit code is checked:
- Exit code 0 (success) fails the test — a truncated file should
never parse without error.
- Crash signals are detected portably via kill -l, which maps the
signal number to a name on the running system. This handles
architectures where signal numbers differ (e.g. SIGBUS is 7 on
x86/ARM but 10 on MIPS/SPARC). Core-dump and fatal signals
(KILL, ILL, ABRT, BUS, FPE, SEGV, TRAP, SYS) fail the test.
- Higher exit codes (200+) are perf's own negative-errno returns
(e.g. -EINVAL = 234) and are expected.
This exercises the bounds checking, minimum-size validation, and error
propagation added by the preceding patches in this series.
Testing it:
root@number:~# perf test truncat
84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).: Ok
root@number:~# perf test -vv truncat
84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).:
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 62890
---- end(0) ----
84: Test that perf report handles truncated perf.data gracefully (no crash, no segfault — clean error exit).: Ok
root@number:~#
Changes in v2:
- Add SIGKILL to the list of fatal signals so OOM kills from
resource exhaustion bugs are detected (Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org)
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.6-1m
[ Fixed the SPDX on the line where 'perf test' expects the test description, reviewed by Ian Rogers ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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