6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com
[ Upstream commit 163e5f2b96632b7fb2eaa965562aca0dbdf9f996 ]
When using perf record with the `--overwrite` option, a segmentation fault occurs if an event fails to open. For example:
perf record -e cycles-ct -F 1000 -a --overwrite Error: cycles-ct:H: PMU Hardware doesn't support sampling/overflow-interrupts. Try 'perf stat' perf: Segmentation fault #0 0x6466b6 in dump_stack debug.c:366 #1 0x646729 in sighandler_dump_stack debug.c:378 #2 0x453fd1 in sigsegv_handler builtin-record.c:722 #3 0x7f8454e65090 in __restore_rt libc-2.32.so[54090] #4 0x6c5671 in __perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1862 #5 0x6c5ac0 in perf_event__synthesize_id_index synthetic-events.c:1943 #6 0x458090 in record__synthesize builtin-record.c:2075 #7 0x45a85a in __cmd_record builtin-record.c:2888 #8 0x45deb6 in cmd_record builtin-record.c:4374 #9 0x4e5e33 in run_builtin perf.c:349 #10 0x4e60bf in handle_internal_command perf.c:401 #11 0x4e6215 in run_argv perf.c:448 #12 0x4e653a in main perf.c:555 #13 0x7f8454e4fa72 in __libc_start_main libc-2.32.so[3ea72] #14 0x43a3ee in _start ??:0
The --overwrite option implies --tail-synthesize, which collects non-sample events reflecting the system status when recording finishes. However, when evsel opening fails (e.g., unsupported event 'cycles-ct'), session->evlist is not initialized and remains NULL. The code unconditionally calls record__synthesize() in the error path, which iterates through the NULL evlist pointer and causes a segfault.
To fix it, move the record__synthesize() call inside the error check block, so it's only called when there was no error during recording, ensuring that evlist is properly initialized.
Fixes: 4ea648aec019 ("perf record: Add --tail-synthesize option") Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index d76f01956e33b..b1fb87016d5aa 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -2883,11 +2883,11 @@ static int __cmd_record(struct record *rec, int argc, const char **argv) rec->bytes_written += off_cpu_write(rec->session);
record__read_lost_samples(rec); - record__synthesize(rec, true); /* this will be recalculated during process_buildids() */ rec->samples = 0;
if (!err) { + record__synthesize(rec, true); if (!rec->timestamp_filename) { record__finish_output(rec); } else {