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authorIan Rogers <irogers@google.com>2019-09-25 12:59:24 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-09-27 09:26:14 -0300
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perf tests: Avoid raising SEGV using an obvious NULL dereference
An optimized build such as: make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O3 will turn the dereference operation into a ud2 instruction, raising a SIGILL rather than a SIGSEGV. Use raise(..) for correctness and clarity. Similar issues were addressed in Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo's patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/8/1234 Committer testing: Before: [root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks 55: perf hooks : Ok [root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks 55: perf hooks : --- start --- test child forked, pid 17092 SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover. Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test' test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- perf hooks: Ok [root@quaco ~]# After: [root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks 55: perf hooks : Ok [root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks 55: perf hooks : --- start --- test child forked, pid 17909 SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover. Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test' test child finished with 0 ---- end ---- perf hooks: Ok [root@quaco ~]# Fixes: a074865e60ed ("perf tools: Introduce perf hooks") Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925195924.152834-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
index dbc27199c65e..dd865e0bea12 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c
@@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ static void sigsegv_handler(int sig __maybe_unused)
static void the_hook(void *_hook_flags)
{
int *hook_flags = _hook_flags;
- int *p = NULL;
*hook_flags = 1234;
/* Generate a segfault, test perf_hooks__recover */
- *p = 0;
+ raise(SIGSEGV);
}
int test__perf_hooks(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused)