This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf probe: Fix wrong variable warning when the probe point is not found
to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-probe-fix-wrong-variable-warning-when-the-probe-point-is-not-found.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 11fd3eb874e73ee8069bcfd54e3c16fa7ce56fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:11:13 +0900
Subject: perf probe: Fix wrong variable warning when the probe point is not found
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 11fd3eb874e73ee8069bcfd54e3c16fa7ce56fe6 upstream.
Fix a wrong "variable not found" warning when the probe point is not
found in the debuginfo.
Since the debuginfo__find_probes() can return 0 even if it does not find
given probe point in the debuginfo, fill_empty_trace_arg() can be called
with tf.ntevs == 0 and it can emit a wrong warning. To fix this, reject
ntevs == 0 in fill_empty_trace_arg().
E.g. without this patch;
# perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.30.so -a "memcpy arg1=%di"
Failed to find the location of the '%di' variable at this address.
Perhaps it has been optimized out.
Use -V with the --range option to show '%di' location range.
Added new events:
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_libc:memcpy -aR sleep 1
With this;
# perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.30.so -a "memcpy arg1=%di"
Added new events:
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
probe_libc:memcpy (on memcpy in /usr/lib64/libc-2.30.so with arg1=%di)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe_libc:memcpy -aR sleep 1
Fixes: cb4027308570 ("perf probe: Trace a magic number if variable is not found")
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/159438667364.62703.2200642186798763202.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -1408,6 +1408,9 @@ static int fill_empty_trace_arg(struct p
char *type;
int i, j, ret;
+ if (!ntevs)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
for (i = 0; i < pev->nargs; i++) {
type = NULL;
for (j = 0; j < ntevs; j++) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.8/perf-probe-fix-wrong-variable-warning-when-the-probe-point-is-not-found.patch
queue-5.8/perf-probe-fix-memory-leakage-when-the-probe-point-is-not-found.patch
queue-5.8/bootconfig-fix-to-find-the-initargs-correctly.patch
queue-5.8/kprobes-fix-null-pointer-dereference-at-kprobe_ftrace_handler.patch
