Re: [PATCH] trace-cmd: record crashes if -f is used before -e event.

From: John Kacur
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 18:57:22 EST




On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:

> The trace-cmd record command is crashing if a -f filter is used before
> a -e event.
>
> The usage a -f before a -e is a command line error, and trace-cmd
> record detects this error by checking if the last_event pointer is NULL.
>
> However, the last_event is not initialized as NULL and this command line
> error is not detected. Then, the last_event is used to save the filter
> options and this causes a segmentation fault because last_event was not
> initialized yet.
>
> This problem is fixed by initializing last_event as NULL.
>
> How-to reproduce:
> # trace-cmd record -f foo
> Segmentation fault
>
> Expected output:
> # trace-cmd record -f foo
> filter must come after event
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> trace-record.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/trace-record.c b/trace-record.c
> index 3e5def2..45826b6 100644
> --- a/trace-record.c
> +++ b/trace-record.c
> @@ -2686,7 +2686,7 @@ void trace_record (int argc, char **argv)
> const char *output = NULL;
> const char *option;
> struct event_list *event;
> - struct event_list *last_event;
> + struct event_list *last_event = NULL;
> struct tracecmd_event_list *list;
> struct buffer_instance *instance = &top_instance;
> enum trace_type type;
> --
> 2.1.0
>
Tested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx>

Works well, please apply
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