From a285412479b6d5af3e48273a92ec2f1987df8cd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 19:33:04 +0200
Subject: perf tools: Pre-check sample size before parsing

Check that the total size of the sample fields having a fixed
size do not exceed the one of the whole event. This robustifies
the sample parsing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/event.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/event.c')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 1023f67633a4..17c1c3c875c3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -35,6 +35,22 @@ const char *perf_event__name(unsigned int id)
 	return perf_event__names[id];
 }
 
+int perf_sample_size(u64 sample_type)
+{
+	u64 mask = sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_MASK;
+	int size = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
+		if ((mask << i) & 1)
+			size++;
+	}
+
+	size *= sizeof(u64);
+
+	return size;
+}
+
 static struct perf_sample synth_sample = {
 	.pid	   = -1,
 	.tid	   = -1,
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