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[1/2] perf hists browser: Add NULL pointer check to prevent crash

Message ID 1449060693-236232-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
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Wang Nan Dec. 2, 2015, 12:51 p.m. UTC
Before this patch we can trigger a segfault by following steps:

 Step 1: perf report

 Step 2: Use UP/DOWN to select an entry, don't press 'ENTER'

 Step 3: Use '/' to filter symbols, use a filter which returns
         empty result

 Step 4: Press 'ENTER' (notice here that the old selection is still
		        there. This is another problem)

 Step 5: Press 'ENTER' to annotate that symbol

 Step 6: Press 'LEFT' to go out.

 Result: segfault:

 perf: Segmentation fault
 -------- backtrace --------
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x53e568]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7fba75d3245f]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x537516]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x533fef]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x53b347]
 /home/wangnan/perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x96)[0x53d206]
 /home/wangnan/perf(cmd_report+0x1b9f)[0x442c7f]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x47efa2]
 /home/wangnan/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x432fa5]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7fba75d1ebd4]
 /home/wangnan/perf[0x4330d4]

This is because in this case 'nd' could be NULL in
ui_browser__hists_seek(), but that function never check it.

This patch adds checker for potential NULL pointer in that function.
After this patch the above steps won't segfault again.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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1.8.3.4

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Comments

Wang Nan Dec. 3, 2015, 2:36 a.m. UTC | #1
On 2015/12/2 23:59, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 12:51:32PM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:

>> Before this patch we can trigger a segfault by following steps:

>>

>>   Step 1: perf report

>>

>>   Step 2: Use UP/DOWN to select an entry, don't press 'ENTER'

>>

>>   Step 3: Use '/' to filter symbols, use a filter which returns

>>           empty result

>>

>>   Step 4: Press 'ENTER' (notice here that the old selection is still

>> 		        there. This is another problem)

> I guess your data file doesn't contain callchains.  Otherwise 'ENTER'

> key will toggle it and not show context menu.



Yes. With callchain information, this step should be replaced
by:

Toggle an entry and select a leaf entry which can be annotated
with UP and DOWN, don't press 'ENTER'.

I get similar result.

>   We now support 'm' key

> to show context menu in any case.

>

>

>>   Step 5: Press 'ENTER' to annotate that symbol

>>

>>   Step 6: Press 'LEFT' to go out.

>>

>>   Result: segfault:

>>

>>   perf: Segmentation fault

>>   -------- backtrace --------

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x53e568]

>>   /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7fba75d3245f]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x537516]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x533fef]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x53b347]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf(perf_evlist__tui_browse_hists+0x96)[0x53d206]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf(cmd_report+0x1b9f)[0x442c7f]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x47efa2]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x432fa5]

>>   /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7fba75d1ebd4]

>>   /home/wangnan/perf[0x4330d4]

>>

>> This is because in this case 'nd' could be NULL in

>> ui_browser__hists_seek(), but that function never check it.

>>

>> This patch adds checker for potential NULL pointer in that function.

>> After this patch the above steps won't segfault again.

>>

>> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>

>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

>> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

>> ---

>>   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 33da341..9458da8 100644

>> --- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c

>> +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c

>> @@ -1280,8 +1280,10 @@ static void ui_browser__hists_seek(struct ui_browser *browser,

>>   	 * Moves not relative to the first visible entry invalidates its

>>   	 * row_offset:

>>   	 */

>> -	h = rb_entry(browser->top, struct hist_entry, rb_node);

>> -	h->row_offset = 0;

>> +	if (browser->top) {

>> +		h = rb_entry(browser->top, struct hist_entry, rb_node);

>> +		h->row_offset = 0;

>> +	}

> Did you have a problem with this code?  It seems that

> ui_browser__hists_init_top() ensures browser->top is initialized.

>


No. Add it for safty because I see in following code that browser->top
can be NULL.

Will be removed in next version.

Thank you.


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Patch

diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
index 33da341..9458da8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/hists.c
@@ -1280,8 +1280,10 @@  static void ui_browser__hists_seek(struct ui_browser *browser,
 	 * Moves not relative to the first visible entry invalidates its
 	 * row_offset:
 	 */
-	h = rb_entry(browser->top, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
-	h->row_offset = 0;
+	if (browser->top) {
+		h = rb_entry(browser->top, struct hist_entry, rb_node);
+		h->row_offset = 0;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Here we have to check if nd is expanded (+), if it is we can't go
@@ -1297,6 +1299,8 @@  static void ui_browser__hists_seek(struct ui_browser *browser,
 	 * and stop when we printed enough lines to fill the screen.
 	 */
 do_offset:
+	if (!nd)
+		return;
 	if (offset > 0) {
 		do {
 			h = rb_entry(nd, struct hist_entry, rb_node);