4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5a2342111c68e623e27ee7ea3d0492d8dad6bda0 ] Valgrind was complaining: $ valgrind ./perf list >/dev/null ==11643== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==11643== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==11643== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==11643== Command: ./perf list ==11643== ==11643== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s) ==11643== at 0x4C30620: rindex (vg_replace_strmem.c:199) ==11643== by 0x49DAA9: build_id_cache__origname (build-id.c:198) ==11643== by 0x49E1C7: build_id_cache__valid_id (build-id.c:222) ==11643== by 0x49E1C7: build_id_cache__list_all (build-id.c:507) ==11643== by 0x4B9C8F: print_sdt_events (parse-events.c:2067) ==11643== by 0x4BB0B3: print_events (parse-events.c:2313) ==11643== by 0x439501: cmd_list (builtin-list.c:53) ==11643== by 0x497150: run_builtin (perf.c:359) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: handle_internal_command (perf.c:421) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: run_argv (perf.c:467) ==11643== by 0x428CE0: main (perf.c:614) [...] Additionally, a zero length result from readlink() is not very interesting. Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322130624.21881-3-tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/build-id.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/perf/util/build-id.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/build-id.c @@ -182,13 +182,17 @@ char *build_id_cache__origname(const cha char buf[PATH_MAX]; char *ret = NULL, *p; size_t offs = 5; /* == strlen("../..") */ + ssize_t len; linkname = build_id_cache__linkname(sbuild_id, NULL, 0); if (!linkname) return NULL; - if (readlink(linkname, buf, PATH_MAX) < 0) + len = readlink(linkname, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1); + if (len <= 0) goto out; + buf[len] = '\0'; + /* The link should be "../..<origpath>/<sbuild_id>" */ p = strrchr(buf, '/'); /* Cut off the "/<sbuild_id>" */ if (p && (p > buf + offs)) {