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Commit 1f121b03 authored by Wang Nan's avatar Wang Nan Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf tools: Deal with kernel module names in '[]' correctly



Before patch ba92732e ('perf kmaps: Check kmaps to make code more
robust'), 'perf report' and 'perf annotate' will segfault if trace data
contains kernel module information like this:

 # perf report -D -i ./perf.data
 ...
 0 0 0x188 [0x50]: PERF_RECORD_MMAP -1/0: [0xffffffbff1018000(0xf068000) @ 0]: x [test_module]
 ...

 # perf report -i ./perf.data --objdump=/path/to/objdump --kallsyms=/path/to/kallsyms

 perf: Segmentation fault
 -------- backtrace --------
 /path/to/perf[0x503478]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3545f)[0x7fb201f3745f]
 /path/to/perf[0x499b56]
 /path/to/perf(dso__load_kallsyms+0x13c)[0x49b56c]
 /path/to/perf(dso__load+0x72e)[0x49c21e]
 /path/to/perf(map__load+0x6e)[0x4ae9ee]
 /path/to/perf(thread__find_addr_map+0x24c)[0x47deec]
 /path/to/perf(perf_event__preprocess_sample+0x88)[0x47e238]
 /path/to/perf[0x43ad02]
 /path/to/perf[0x4b55bc]
 /path/to/perf(ordered_events__flush+0xca)[0x4b57ea]
 /path/to/perf[0x4b1a01]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__process_events+0x3be)[0x4b428e]
 /path/to/perf(cmd_report+0xf11)[0x43bfc1]
 /path/to/perf[0x474702]
 /path/to/perf(main+0x5f5)[0x42de95]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4)[0x7fb201f23bd4]
 /path/to/perf[0x42dfc4]

This is because __kmod_path__parse treats '[' leading names as kernel
name instead of names of kernel module.

If perf.data contains build information and the buildid of such modules
can be found, the dso->kernel of it will be set to DSO_TYPE_KERNEL by
__event_process_build_id(), not kernel module.

It will then be passed to dso__load() -> dso__load_kernel_sym() ->
dso__load_kcore() if --kallsyms is provided.

The refered patch adds NULL pointer checker to avoid segfault. However,
such kernel modules are still processed incorrectly.

This patch fixes __kmod_path__parse, makes it treat names like
'[test_module]' as kernel modules.

kmod-path.c is also update to reflect the above changes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433321541-170245-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com


[ Fixed the merged with 0443f36b ("perf machine: Fix the search
  for the kernel DSO on the unified list" ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 4fc62a89
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