This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf pmus: Fixes always false when compare duplicates aliases
to the 6.6-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-pmus-fixes-always-false-when-compare-duplicates.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e3daa4e8acf6b2fc38db93b7b31280a2b50c72c1
Author: Junhao He <hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 14 17:43:18 2024 +0800
perf pmus: Fixes always false when compare duplicates aliases
[ Upstream commit dd9a426eade634bf794c7e0f1b0c6659f556942f ]
In the previous loop, all the members in the aliases[j-1] have been freed
and set to NULL. But in this loop, the function pmu_alias_is_duplicate()
compares the aliases[j] with the aliases[j-1] that has already been
disposed, so the function will always return false and duplicate aliases
will never be discarded.
If we find duplicate aliases, it skips the zfree aliases[j], which is
accompanied by a memory leak.
We can use the next aliases[j+1] to theck for duplicate aliases to
fixes the aliases NULL pointer dereference, then goto zfree code snippet
to release it.
After patch testing:
$ perf list --unit=hisi_sicl,cpa pmu
uncore cpa:
cpa_p0_rd_dat_32b
[Number of read ops transmitted by the P0 port which size is 32 bytes.
Unit: hisi_sicl,cpa]
cpa_p0_rd_dat_64b
[Number of read ops transmitted by the P0 port which size is 64 bytes.
Unit: hisi_sicl,cpa]
Fixes: c3245d2093c1 ("perf pmu: Abstract alias/event struct")
Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxx
Cc: james.clark@xxxxxxx
Cc: prime.zeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linuxarm@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: robh@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: renyu.zj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: john.g.garry@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240614094318.11607-1-hejunhao3@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
index cec869cbe163a..54a237b2b8538 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/pmus.c
@@ -470,8 +470,8 @@ void perf_pmus__print_pmu_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb, void *p
qsort(aliases, len, sizeof(struct sevent), cmp_sevent);
for (int j = 0; j < len; j++) {
/* Skip duplicates */
- if (j > 0 && pmu_alias_is_duplicate(&aliases[j], &aliases[j - 1]))
- continue;
+ if (j < len - 1 && pmu_alias_is_duplicate(&aliases[j], &aliases[j + 1]))
+ goto free;
print_cb->print_event(print_state,
aliases[j].pmu_name,
@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ void perf_pmus__print_pmu_events(const struct print_callbacks *print_cb, void *p
aliases[j].desc,
aliases[j].long_desc,
aliases[j].encoding_desc);
+free:
zfree(&aliases[j].name);
zfree(&aliases[j].alias);
zfree(&aliases[j].scale_unit);
