This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf buildid: Do not assume that readlink() returns a null terminated string
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: perf-buildid-do-not-assume-that-readlink-returns-a-null-terminated-string.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Sun Mar 18 16:55:33 CET 2018
From: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:06:20 +0200 Subject: perf buildid: Do not assume that readlink() returns a null terminated string
From: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com
[ Upstream commit 5a2342111c68e623e27ee7ea3d0492d8dad6bda0 ]
Valgrind was complaining:
$ valgrind ./perf list >/dev/null ==11643== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==11643== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==11643== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==11643== Command: ./perf list ==11643== ==11643== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==11643== at 0x4C30620: rindex (vg_replace_strmem.c:199) ==11643== by 0x49DAA9: build_id_cache__origname (build-id.c:198) ==11643== by 0x49E1C7: build_id_cache__valid_id (build-id.c:222) ==11643== by 0x49E1C7: build_id_cache__list_all (build-id.c:507) ==11643== by 0x4B9C8F: print_sdt_events (parse-events.c:2067) ==11643== by 0x4BB0B3: print_events (parse-events.c:2313) ==11643== by 0x439501: cmd_list (builtin-list.c:53) ==11643== by 0x497150: run_builtin (perf.c:359) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: handle_internal_command (perf.c:421) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: run_argv (perf.c:467) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: main (perf.c:614) [...]
Additionally, a zero length result from readlink() is not very interesting.
Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322130624.21881-3-tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c @@ -182,13 +182,17 @@ char *build_id_cache__origname(const cha char buf[PATH_MAX]; char *ret = NULL, *p; size_t offs = 5; /* == strlen("../..") */ + ssize_t len;
linkname = build_id_cache__linkname(sbuild_id, NULL, 0); if (!linkname) return NULL;
- if (readlink(linkname, buf, PATH_MAX) < 0) + len = readlink(linkname, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1); + if (len <= 0) goto out; + buf[len] = '\0'; + /* The link should be "../..<origpath>/<sbuild_id>" */ p = strrchr(buf, '/'); /* Cut off the "/<sbuild_id>" */ if (p && (p > buf + offs)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com are
queue-4.9/perf-buildid-do-not-assume-that-readlink-returns-a-null-terminated-string.patch