This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf ui browser: Don't save pointer to stack memory
to the 6.9-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-ui-browser-don-t-save-pointer-to-stack-memory.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 89526707cde8a018f7a81977fd0895c2fefea279
Author: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 7 11:35:38 2024 -0700
perf ui browser: Don't save pointer to stack memory
[ Upstream commit 769e6a1e15bdbbaf2b0d2f37c24f2c53268bd21f ]
ui_browser__show() is capturing the input title that is stack allocated
memory in hist_browser__run().
Avoid a use after return by strdup-ing the string.
Committer notes:
Further explanation from Ian Rogers:
My command line using tui is:
$ sudo bash -c 'rm /tmp/asan.log*; export
ASAN_OPTIONS="log_path=/tmp/asan.log"; /tmp/perf/perf mem record -a
sleep 1; /tmp/perf/perf mem report'
I then go to the perf annotate view and quit. This triggers the asan
error (from the log file):
```
==1254591==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: stack-use-after-return on address
0x7f2813331920 at pc 0x7f28180
65991 bp 0x7fff0a21c750 sp 0x7fff0a21bf10
READ of size 80 at 0x7f2813331920 thread T0
#0 0x7f2818065990 in __interceptor_strlen
../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:461
#1 0x7f2817698251 in SLsmg_write_wrapped_string
(/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2+0x98251)
#2 0x7f28176984b9 in SLsmg_write_nstring
(/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libslang.so.2+0x984b9)
#3 0x55c94045b365 in ui_browser__write_nstring ui/browser.c:60
#4 0x55c94045c558 in __ui_browser__show_title ui/browser.c:266
#5 0x55c94045c776 in ui_browser__show ui/browser.c:288
#6 0x55c94045c06d in ui_browser__handle_resize ui/browser.c:206
#7 0x55c94047979b in do_annotate ui/browsers/hists.c:2458
#8 0x55c94047fb17 in evsel__hists_browse ui/browsers/hists.c:3412
#9 0x55c940480a0c in perf_evsel_menu__run ui/browsers/hists.c:3527
#10 0x55c940481108 in __evlist__tui_browse_hists ui/browsers/hists.c:3613
#11 0x55c9404813f7 in evlist__tui_browse_hists ui/browsers/hists.c:3661
#12 0x55c93ffa253f in report__browse_hists tools/perf/builtin-report.c:671
#13 0x55c93ffa58ca in __cmd_report tools/perf/builtin-report.c:1141
#14 0x55c93ffaf159 in cmd_report tools/perf/builtin-report.c:1805
#15 0x55c94000c05c in report_events tools/perf/builtin-mem.c:374
#16 0x55c94000d96d in cmd_mem tools/perf/builtin-mem.c:516
#17 0x55c9400e44ee in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:350
#18 0x55c9400e4a5a in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:403
#19 0x55c9400e4e22 in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:447
#20 0x55c9400e53ad in main tools/perf/perf.c:561
#21 0x7f28170456c9 in __libc_start_call_main
../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#22 0x7f2817045784 in __libc_start_main_impl ../csu/libc-start.c:360
#23 0x55c93ff544c0 in _start (/tmp/perf/perf+0x19a4c0) (BuildId:
84899b0e8c7d3a3eaa67b2eb35e3d8b2f8cd4c93)
Address 0x7f2813331920 is located in stack of thread T0 at offset 32 in frame
#0 0x55c94046e85e in hist_browser__run ui/browsers/hists.c:746
This frame has 1 object(s):
[32, 192) 'title' (line 747) <== Memory access at offset 32 is
inside this variable
HINT: this may be a false positive if your program uses some custom
stack unwind mechanism, swapcontext or vfork
```
hist_browser__run isn't on the stack so the asan error looks legit.
There's no clean init/exit on struct ui_browser so I may be trading a
use-after-return for a memory leak, but that seems look a good trade
anyway.
Fixes: 05e8b0804ec4 ("perf ui browser: Stop using 'self'")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ben Gainey <ben.gainey@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Dong <lidong@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paran Lee <p4ranlee@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sun Haiyong <sunhaiyong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507183545.1236093-2-irogers@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
index 603d11283cbdc..c4cdf2ea69b72 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.c
@@ -287,7 +287,8 @@ int ui_browser__show(struct ui_browser *browser, const char *title,
mutex_lock(&ui__lock);
__ui_browser__show_title(browser, title);
- browser->title = title;
+ free(browser->title);
+ browser->title = strdup(title);
zfree(&browser->helpline);
va_start(ap, helpline);
@@ -304,6 +305,7 @@ void ui_browser__hide(struct ui_browser *browser)
mutex_lock(&ui__lock);
ui_helpline__pop();
zfree(&browser->helpline);
+ zfree(&browser->title);
mutex_unlock(&ui__lock);
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/browser.h b/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
index 510ce45540501..6e98d5f8f71cc 100644
--- a/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
+++ b/tools/perf/ui/browser.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct ui_browser {
u8 extra_title_lines;
int current_color;
void *priv;
- const char *title;
+ char *title;
char *helpline;
const char *no_samples_msg;
void (*refresh_dimensions)(struct ui_browser *browser);
