From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] perf: Avoid uninitialized sample type reference in __perf_event__output_id_sample
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:57:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002085730.GD12926@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380572952-30729-12-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org>
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:29:12PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> __perf_event__output_id_sample looks at data->type to decide
> what to output.
>
> A lot of of the custom output functions, for example perf_log_throttle
> start with perf_event_header__init_id, which only initializes
> the header when event->attr.sample_id_all is true.
>
> But when this is false the output function is still called,
> and will look at an uninitialized header.
>
> I changed all the callers to perf_event_header__init_id
> to __perf_event_header__init_id which unconditionally
> initializes the header.
>
> FWIW I'm not fully sure this is the correct fix and what the
> exact semantics of sample_id_all are supposed to be.
> Should it disable all throttling etc. messages?
> Please review carefully.
Why are you doing this; also what's up with 11/11?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-02 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-30 20:29 Various static checker fixes Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 01/11] random: don't feed stack data into pool when interrupt regs NULL Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:51 ` Luck, Tony
2013-10-01 12:44 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-04 16:54 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-07 4:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-07 19:30 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2014-04-07 23:26 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-09 18:14 ` rkuo
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 02/11] Disable initialized_var for clang Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 03/11] posix-timers: Initialize timer value to 0 for invalid timers Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 04/11] block: Return error code of elevator init function Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 12:25 ` Jeff Moyer
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 05/11] seq_file: Handle ->next error in seq_read Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 06/11] sysctl: remove unnecessary variable initialization Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 07/11] igb: Avoid uninitialized advertised variable in eee_set_cur Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 15:00 ` Wyborny, Carolyn
2013-10-01 23:10 ` Jeff Kirsher
2013-10-02 20:33 ` David Miller
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 08/11] ext4: Fix end of group handling in ext4_mb_init_cache Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 12:45 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-10-01 14:20 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 09/11] epoll: Remove unnecessary error path Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:59 ` Eric Wong
2013-09-30 21:01 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 10/11] tcp: Always set options to 0 before calling tcp_established_options Andi Kleen
2013-10-02 20:33 ` David Miller
2013-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 11/11] perf: Avoid uninitialized sample type reference in __perf_event__output_id_sample Andi Kleen
2013-10-02 8:57 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-10-02 17:25 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-02 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-03 6:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-03 18:16 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-04 6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
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