From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: perf per-symbol histogram causes memory corruption
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:26:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100225.022618.256301798.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
When builtin-annotate.c processes sample events via
process_sample_event() it uses 'sample_filter'
sample_filter() sizes the histogram object for a symbol based upon the
size, calculated as "sym->end - sym->start", to determine the number
of IP sample slots to allocate.
The problem is, the sym->end value is not stable at this point.
For example, dso__load_sym() first loads all of the symbols, then it
makes another pass over the symbols by calling symbols__fixup_end()
which will adjust the sym->end values of various symbols.
At this point, the histogram IP sample array allocated by
sample_filter() can become too small, and hits recorded can thus
access past the end of the array corrupting memory.
I get this very reliably on sparc64, and it took me a few days to root
cause this. :-)
I don't see an immediate way to fix this, any ideas?
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-25 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 10:26 David Miller [this message]
2010-02-25 11:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-25 14:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-02-25 15:02 ` David Miller
2010-02-25 15:57 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-02-25 16:25 ` David Miller
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