On 2015/9/12 0:22, Namhyung Kim wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:59:11AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
'perf top' segfaults with following operation:

  # perf top -e page-faults -p 15173 # 15173 never generate page-fault

Then on the resulting empty interface, press right key:

  # ./perf top -e page-faults -p 11400
  perf: Segmentation fault
  -------- backtrace --------
  ./perf[0x535428]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7f0dd360745f]
  ./perf[0x531d46]
  ./perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x96)[0x5340d6]
  ./perf[0x44ba2f]
  /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x81d0)[0x7f0dd49dc1d0]
  /lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x6c)[0x7f0dd36b90dc]

The bug reside in perf_evsel__hists_browse() that, in the above circumstance
browser->selection can be NULL, but code after skip_annotation doesn't consider
it.

This patch fix it by checing browser->selection before fetching
browser->selection->map and browser->selection->sym.
I'm ok with this change, just a nitpick below..


Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
---
  tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 8 ++++++--
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index e4fd40f..b00fa92 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -2017,7 +2017,8 @@ skip_annotation:
                                          &options[nr_options], dso);
                nr_options += add_map_opt(browser, &actions[nr_options],
                                          &options[nr_options],
-                                         browser->selection->map);
+                                         browser->selection ?
+                                               browser->selection->map : NULL);
                nr_options += add_socket_opt(browser, &actions[nr_options],
                                             &options[nr_options],
                                             socket);
@@ -2030,7 +2031,10 @@ skip_annotation:
                        nr_options += add_script_opt(browser,
                                                     &actions[nr_options],
                                                     &options[nr_options],
-                                                    NULL, 
browser->selection->sym);
+                                                    NULL,
+                                                    browser->selection ?
+                                                       browser->selection->sym 
:
+                                                       NULL);
Is this really needed?  IIUC browser->selection is not NULL if
browser->he_selection is not NULL.  Did you see a case it's NULL?
Also passing a NULL thread and a NULL sym is meaningless here since
it's a duplication..

Actually I didn't see the case when browser->he_selection is not NULL but
browser->selection is NULL. I add the testing only for safety reason because
we have

        if (browser->selection == NULL)
            goto skip_annotation;

So I guess we'd better to check browser->selection in the codeblock leading by
skip_annotation, so if someone breaks the assumption the code still work.

But yes, we can add the checker back when the assumption *does* be broken.
Currently let's add a comment here for code readers.

Please have a look for v2 patch.

Thank you.


Thanks,
Namhyung


                }
                nr_options += add_script_opt(browser, &actions[nr_options],
                                             &options[nr_options], NULL, NULL);
--
1.8.3.4



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