From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 5b3cde198878b2f3269d5e7efbc0d514899b1fd8 upstream. This reverts commit 7d1405c71df21f6c394b8a885aa8a133f749fa22. This causes segfaults in some cases, as reported by Milian: ``` sudo /usr/bin/perf record -z --call-graph dwarf -e cycles -e raw_syscalls:sys_enter ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 3 times to write data ] malloc(): invalid next size (unsorted) Aborted ``` Backtrace with GDB + debuginfod: ``` malloc(): invalid next size (unsorted) Thread 1 "perf" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44 Downloading source file /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/nptl/pthread_kill.c 44 return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (ret) ? INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (ret) : 0; (gdb) bt #0 __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44 #1 0x00007ffff6ea8eb3 in __pthread_kill_internal (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=6) at pthread_kill.c:78 #2 0x00007ffff6e50a30 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/ raise.c:26 #3 0x00007ffff6e384c3 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79 #4 0x00007ffff6e39354 in __libc_message_impl (fmt=fmt@entry=0x7ffff6fc22ea "%s\n") at ../sysdeps/posix/libc_fatal.c:132 #5 0x00007ffff6eb3085 in malloc_printerr (str=str@entry=0x7ffff6fc5850 "malloc(): invalid next size (unsorted)") at malloc.c:5772 #6 0x00007ffff6eb657c in _int_malloc (av=av@entry=0x7ffff6ff6ac0 <main_arena>, bytes=bytes@entry=368) at malloc.c:4081 #7 0x00007ffff6eb877e in __libc_calloc (n=<optimized out>, elem_size=<optimized out>) at malloc.c:3754 #8 0x000055555569bdb6 in perf_session.do_write_header () #9 0x00005555555a373a in __cmd_record.constprop.0 () #10 0x00005555555a6846 in cmd_record () #11 0x000055555564db7f in run_builtin () #12 0x000055555558ed77 in main () ``` Valgrind memcheck: ``` ==45136== Invalid write of size 8 ==45136== at 0x2B38A5: perf_event__synthesize_id_sample (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x157069: __cmd_record.constprop.0 (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x15A845: cmd_record (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x201B7E: run_builtin (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x142D76: main (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== Address 0x6a866a8 is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc'd ==45136== at 0x4849BF3: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1675) ==45136== by 0x3574AB: zalloc (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x1570E0: __cmd_record.constprop.0 (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x15A845: cmd_record (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x201B7E: run_builtin (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x142D76: main (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== ==45136== Syscall param write(buf) points to unaddressable byte(s) ==45136== at 0x575953D: __libc_write (write.c:26) ==45136== by 0x575953D: write (write.c:24) ==45136== by 0x35761F: ion (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x357778: writen (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x1548F7: record__write (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x15708A: __cmd_record.constprop.0 (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x15A845: cmd_record (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x201B7E: run_builtin (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x142D76: main (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== Address 0x6a866a8 is 0 bytes after a block of size 40 alloc'd ==45136== at 0x4849BF3: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:1675) ==45136== by 0x3574AB: zalloc (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x1570E0: __cmd_record.constprop.0 (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x15A845: cmd_record (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x201B7E: run_builtin (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== by 0x142D76: main (in /usr/bin/perf) ==45136== ----- Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/23879991.0LEYPuXRzz@milian-workstation/ Reported-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 6.8+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zl9ksOlHJHnKM70p@x1 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1956,8 +1956,7 @@ static void record__read_lost_samples(st if (count.lost) { if (!lost) { - lost = zalloc(sizeof(*lost) + - session->machines.host.id_hdr_size); + lost = zalloc(PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE); if (!lost) { pr_debug("Memory allocation failed\n"); return; @@ -1973,8 +1972,7 @@ static void record__read_lost_samples(st lost_count = perf_bpf_filter__lost_count(evsel); if (lost_count) { if (!lost) { - lost = zalloc(sizeof(*lost) + - session->machines.host.id_hdr_size); + lost = zalloc(PERF_SAMPLE_MAX_SIZE); if (!lost) { pr_debug("Memory allocation failed\n"); return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from acme@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.9/revert-perf-record-reduce-memory-for-recording-perf_record_lost_samples-event.patch