c1748a6d6c
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2040284
[ Upstream commit ef23cb593304bde0cc046fd4cc83ae7ea2e24f16 ]
While debugging a segfault on 'perf lock contention' without an
available perf.data file I noticed that it was basically calling:
perf_session__delete(ERR_PTR(-1))
Resulting in:
(gdb) run lock contention
Starting program: /root/bin/perf lock contention
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
failed to open perf.data: No such file or directory (try 'perf record' first)
Initializing perf session failed
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858
2858 if (!session->auxtrace)
(gdb) p session
$1 = (struct perf_session *) 0xffffffffffffffff
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00000000005e7515 in auxtrace__free (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/auxtrace.c:2858
#1 0x000000000057bb4d in perf_session__delete (session=0xffffffffffffffff) at util/session.c:300
#2 0x000000000047c421 in __cmd_contention (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2161
#3 0x000000000047dc95 in cmd_lock (argc=0, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at builtin-lock.c:2604
#4 0x0000000000501466 in run_builtin (p=0xe597a8 <commands+552>, argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:322
#5 0x00000000005016d5 in handle_internal_command (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:375
#6 0x0000000000501824 in run_argv (argcp=0x7fffffffe02c, argv=0x7fffffffe020) at perf.c:419
#7 0x0000000000501b11 in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe200) at perf.c:535
(gdb)
So just set it to NULL after using PTR_ERR(session) to decode the error
as perf_session__delete(NULL) is supported.
The same problem was found in 'perf top' after an audit of all
perf_session__new() failure handling.
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README
Linux kernel
============
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.