Marc reported use of uninitialized memory:
> In commit "
403567217d3f perf symbols: Do not read symbols/data from
> device files" a check to uninitialzied memory was added. This leads to
> the following valgrind output:
>
> ==24515== Syscall param stat(file_name) points to uninitialised byte(s)
> ==24515== at 0x75B26D5: _xstat (in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.22.so)
> ==24515== by 0x4E548D: stat (stat.h:454)
> ==24515== by 0x4E548D: is_regular_file (util.c:687)
> ==24515== by 0x4A5BEE: dso__load (symbol.c:1435)
> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__load (map.c:289)
> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__find_symbol (map.c:333)
> ==24515== by 0x4835B3: thread__find_addr_location (event.c:1300)
> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: add_callchain_ip (machine.c:1652)
> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: thread__resolve_callchain_sample (machine.c:1906)
> ==24515== by 0x4B9E7D: thread__resolve_callchain (machine.c:1958)
> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_event (builtin-script.c:795)
> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_sample_event (builtin-script.c:920)
> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: perf_evlist__deliver_sample (session.c:1192)
> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: machines__deliver_event (session.c:1229)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: perf_session__deliver_event (session.c:1286)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: ordered_events__deliver_event (session.c:114)
> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: __ordered_events__flush (ordered-events.c:207)
> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: ordered_events__flush.part.3 (ordered-events.c:274)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_user_event (session.c:1325)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_event (session.c:1451)
> ==24515== Address 0x807c6a0 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 4,096 alloc'd
> ==24515== at 0x4C29C0F: malloc (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==24515== by 0x4A5BCB: dso__load (symbol.c:1421)
> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__load (map.c:289)
> ==24515== by 0x4BB1AE: map__find_symbol (map.c:333)
> ==24515== by 0x4835B3: thread__find_addr_location (event.c:1300)
> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: add_callchain_ip (machine.c:1652)
> ==24515== by 0x4B5342: thread__resolve_callchain_sample (machine.c:1906)
> ==24515== by 0x4B9E7D: thread__resolve_callchain (machine.c:1958)
> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_event (builtin-script.c:795)
> ==24515== by 0x441B3E: process_sample_event (builtin-script.c:920)
> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: perf_evlist__deliver_sample (session.c:1192)
> ==24515== by 0x4BEE29: machines__deliver_event (session.c:1229)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: perf_session__deliver_event (session.c:1286)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF770: ordered_events__deliver_event (session.c:114)
> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: __ordered_events__flush (ordered-events.c:207)
> ==24515== by 0x4C1D17: ordered_events__flush.part.3 (ordered-events.c:274)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_user_event (session.c:1325)
> ==24515== by 0x4BF44C: perf_session__process_event (session.c:1451)
> ==24515== by 0x4C0EAC: __perf_session__process_events (session.c:1804)
> ==24515== by 0x4C0EAC: perf_session__process_events (session.c:1858)
The reason was a typo that passed global 'name' variable as the
is_regular_file argument instead dso->long_name.
Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes:
403567217d3f ("perf symbols: Do not read symbols/data from device files")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466772025-17471-2-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>