This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf annotate: Avoid TUI crash when navigating in the annotation of recursive functions to the 5.16-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-annotate-avoid-tui-crash-when-navigating-in-the-annotation-of-recursive-functions.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d5962fb7d69073bf68fb647531cfd4f0adf84be3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dario Petrillo <dario.pk1@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:44:41 +0100 Subject: perf annotate: Avoid TUI crash when navigating in the annotation of recursive functions From: Dario Petrillo <dario.pk1@xxxxxxxxx> commit d5962fb7d69073bf68fb647531cfd4f0adf84be3 upstream. In 'perf report', entering a recursive function from inside of itself (either directly of indirectly through some other function) results in calling symbol__annotate2 multiple() times, and freeing the whole disassembly when exiting from the innermost instance. The first issue causes the function's disassembly to be duplicated, and the latter a heap use-after-free (and crash) when trying to access the disassembly again. I reproduced the bug on perf 5.11.22 (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS) and 5.16.rc8 with the following testcase (compile with gcc recursive.c -o recursive). To reproduce: - perf record ./recursive - perf report - enter fibonacci and annotate it - move the cursor on one of the "callq fibonacci" instructions and press enter - at this point there will be two copies of the function in the disassembly - go back by pressing q, and perf will crash #include <stdio.h> int fibonacci(int n) { if(n <= 2) return 1; return fibonacci(n-1) + fibonacci(n-2); } int main() { printf("%d\n", fibonacci(40)); } This patch addresses the issue by annotating a function and freeing the associated memory on exit only if no annotation is already present, so that a recursive function is only annotated on entry. Signed-off-by: Dario Petrillo <dario.pk1@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220109234441.325106-1-dario.pk1@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c +++ b/tools/perf/ui/browsers/annotate.c @@ -966,6 +966,7 @@ int symbol__tui_annotate(struct map_symb .opts = opts, }; int ret = -1, err; + int not_annotated = list_empty(¬es->src->source); if (sym == NULL) return -1; @@ -973,13 +974,15 @@ int symbol__tui_annotate(struct map_symb if (ms->map->dso->annotate_warned) return -1; - err = symbol__annotate2(ms, evsel, opts, &browser.arch); - if (err) { - char msg[BUFSIZ]; - ms->map->dso->annotate_warned = true; - symbol__strerror_disassemble(ms, err, msg, sizeof(msg)); - ui__error("Couldn't annotate %s:\n%s", sym->name, msg); - goto out_free_offsets; + if (not_annotated) { + err = symbol__annotate2(ms, evsel, opts, &browser.arch); + if (err) { + char msg[BUFSIZ]; + ms->map->dso->annotate_warned = true; + symbol__strerror_disassemble(ms, err, msg, sizeof(msg)); + ui__error("Couldn't annotate %s:\n%s", sym->name, msg); + goto out_free_offsets; + } } ui_helpline__push("Press ESC to exit"); @@ -994,9 +997,11 @@ int symbol__tui_annotate(struct map_symb ret = annotate_browser__run(&browser, evsel, hbt); - annotated_source__purge(notes->src); + if(not_annotated) + annotated_source__purge(notes->src); out_free_offsets: - zfree(¬es->offsets); + if(not_annotated) + zfree(¬es->offsets); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dario.pk1@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.16/perf-annotate-avoid-tui-crash-when-navigating-in-the-annotation-of-recursive-functions.patch