From e3e2cf3d5b1fe800b032e14c0fdcd9a6fb20cf3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Rogers Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:59:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925195924.152834-2-irogers@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 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)