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apport-collect 1835940 and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'. If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'. This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835940 Title: perf core dump at tool/perf/util/namespaces.c:144 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Running the following perf collect inside a running docker could potentially crash: $ perf record -F 100 -ag -o /tmp/perf-100Hz-10s -- sleep 10 The dump is caused by SIGSEGV for de-referencing nullptr in nsinfo__copy() in at namespaces.c:144 $ lldb -c /tmp/cores/perf.core.07092019 (lldb) target create --core "/tmp/cores/perf.core.07092019" Core file '/tmp/cores/perf.core.07092019' (x86_64) was loaded. (lldb) bt * thread #1, name = 'perf', stop reason = signal SIGSEGV * frame #0: 0x0000558f2dda2014 perf`nsinfo__copy(nsi=0x0000000000000000) at namespaces.c:144 frame #1: 0x0000558f2dd98779 perf`map__new(machine=0x0000558f31213c48, start=140723782385664, len=8192, pgoff=0, d_maj=<unavailable>, d_min=<unavailable>, ino=0, ino_gen=0, prot=5, flags=4098, filename="", type=MAP__FUNCTION, thread=0x0000558f316f94c0) at map.c:192 frame #2: 0x0000558f2dd96a39 perf`machine__process_mmap2_event(machine=0x0000558f31213c48, event=0x00007fdd8f1105f0, sample=<unavailable>) at machine.c:1428 frame #3: 0x0000558f2dd9d7bc perf`ordered_events__deliver_event at session.c:1343 frame #4: 0x0000558f2dd9d798 perf`ordered_events__deliver_event frame #5: 0x0000558f2dd9d790 perf`ordered_events__deliver_event(oe=0x0000558f31219e00, event=<unavailable>) at session.c:120 frame #6: 0x0000558f2dda1073 perf`ordered_events__flush at ordered-events.c:211 frame #7: 0x0000558f2dda0fb6 perf`ordered_events__flush(oe=0x0000558f31219e00, how=OE_FLUSH__ROUND) at ordered-events.c:278 frame #8: 0x0000558f2dd9e854 perf`perf_session__process_event at session.c:1383 frame #9: 0x0000558f2dd9e570 perf`perf_session__process_event(session=0x0000558f31213b60, event=0x00007fdd8f148050, file_offset=565328) at session.c:1511 frame #10: 0x0000558f2dd9ff40 perf`perf_session__process_events at session.c:1903 frame #11: 0x0000558f2dd9fec0 perf`perf_session__process_events(session=0x0000558f31213b60) at session.c:1957 frame #12: 0x0000558f2dcd76bc perf`cmd_record at builtin-record.c:442 frame #13: 0x0000558f2dcd7695 perf`cmd_record at builtin-record.c:574 frame #14: 0x0000558f2dcd7695 perf`cmd_record at builtin-record.c:1115 frame #15: 0x0000558f2dcd7601 perf`cmd_record(argc=<unavailable>, argv=<unavailable>) at builtin-record.c:1809 frame #16: 0x0000558f2dd3da01 perf`run_builtin(p=0x0000558f2e1f12b8, argc=9, argv=0x00007ffc21201e30) at perf.c:297 frame #17: 0x0000558f2dd3dcfe perf`handle_internal_command(argc=9, argv=0x00007ffc21201e30) at perf.c:349 frame #18: 0x0000558f2dcc17b9 perf`main [inlined] run_argv(argcp=<unavailable>, argv=<unavailable>) at perf.c:393 frame #19: 0x0000558f2dcc17ae perf`main(argc=<unavailable>, argv=0x00007ffc21201e30) at perf.c:537 frame #20: 0x00007fdd8fad5b97 libc.so.6`__libc_start_main + 231 frame #21: 0x0000558f2dcc1c3a perf`_start + 42 The fix for this has already been merged to Linux 4.19-rc, since 8/10/2018, see the original lkml post https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180810133614.9925-1-bev...@mesosphere.com/. bf2e710b3cb84 (Krister Johansen 2017-07-05 18:48:09 -0700 137) struct nsinfo *nsinfo__copy(struct nsinfo *nsi) bf2e710b3cb84 (Krister Johansen 2017-07-05 18:48:09 -0700 138) { bf2e710b3cb84 (Krister Johansen 2017-07-05 18:48:09 -0700 139) struct nsinfo *nnsi; bf2e710b3cb84 (Krister Johansen 2017-07-05 18:48:09 -0700 140) 3f4417d693b43 (Benno Evers 2018-08-10 15:36:13 +0200 141) if (nsi == NULL) 3f4417d693b43 (Benno Evers 2018-08-10 15:36:13 +0200 142) return NULL; 3f4417d693b43 (Benno Evers 2018-08-10 15:36:13 +0200 143) bf2e710b3cb84 (Krister Johansen 2017-07-05 18:48:09 -0700 144) nnsi = calloc(1, sizeof(*nnsi)); I verified locally that this fix works by manually applying to 4.15 and rebuild perf executable after that. To port the fix to 4.15, or other versions earlier than 4.19-rc, we could run: $ git cherry-pick 3f4417d693b43 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1835940/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp