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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2012-05-31 07:43:27 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-05-31 16:20:34 +0200
commit114067b69e7b2c691faace0e33db2f04096f668d (patch)
tree68e4e8e56fe448436a0efbdd03cd342768a32f0e /tools
parentperf callchain: Make callchain cursors TLS (diff)
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perf tools: Check if callchain is corrupted
We faced segmentation fault on perf top -G at very high sampling rate due to a corrupted callchain. While the root cause was not revealed (I failed to figure it out), this patch tries to protect us from the segfault on such cases. Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sunjin Yang <fan4326@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338443007-24857-2-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/session.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index 3b6f8e460a31..04d1e33f4592 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -300,6 +300,11 @@ int machine__resolve_callchain(struct machine *self,
callchain_cursor_reset(&callchain_cursor);
+ if (chain->nr > PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
+ pr_warning("corrupted callchain. skipping...\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < chain->nr; i++) {
u64 ip;
struct addr_location al;
@@ -318,7 +323,14 @@ int machine__resolve_callchain(struct machine *self,
case PERF_CONTEXT_USER:
cpumode = PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER; break;
default:
- break;
+ pr_debug("invalid callchain context: "
+ "%"PRId64"\n", (s64) ip);
+ /*
+ * It seems the callchain is corrupted.
+ * Discard all.
+ */
+ callchain_cursor_reset(&callchain_cursor);
+ return 0;
}
continue;
}