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Ian Rogers d975e59709 perf tests: Avoid raising SEGV using an obvious NULL dereference
[ Upstream commit e3e2cf3d5b ]

An optimized build such as:

  make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O3

will turn the dereference operation into a ud2 instruction, raising a
SIGILL rather than a SIGSEGV. Use raise(..) for correctness and clarity.

Similar issues were addressed in Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo's patch:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/8/1234

Committer testing:

Before:

  [root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
  55: perf hooks                                            : Ok
  [root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
  55: perf hooks                                            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 17092
  SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
  Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  perf hooks: Ok
  [root@quaco ~]#

After:

  [root@quaco ~]# perf test hooks
  55: perf hooks                                            : Ok
  [root@quaco ~]# perf test -v hooks
  55: perf hooks                                            :
  --- start ---
  test child forked, pid 17909
  SIGSEGV is observed as expected, try to recover.
  Fatal error (SEGFAULT) in perf hook 'test'
  test child finished with 0
  ---- end ----
  perf hooks: Ok
  [root@quaco ~]#

Fixes: a074865e60 ("perf tools: Introduce perf hooks")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190925195924.152834-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-11-06 13:05:41 +01:00
arch arm64: kpti: Whitelist HiSilicon Taishan v110 CPUs 2019-11-06 13:05:34 +01:00
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sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Apply ALC294 hp init also for S4 resume 2019-11-06 13:05:36 +01:00
tools perf tests: Avoid raising SEGV using an obvious NULL dereference 2019-11-06 13:05:41 +01:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.