Re: [PATCH] perf/core: Fix perf_sample_data not properly initialized for different swevents in perf_tp_event()

From: Yang Jihong
Date: Tue Apr 18 2023 - 21:47:13 EST


Hello,

On 2023/4/18 18:25, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 09:35:23AM +0800, Yang Jihong wrote:

I'm thinking perhaps those flags that update ->dyn_size are the problem?
At the same time, Should you not also then clear dyn_size?

Yes, according to the code, dyn_size should also be cleared.
Maybe we need to change it to the following, which would be more
appropriate?

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -10144,14 +10144,14 @@ void perf_tp_event(u16 event_type, u64 count, void
*record, int entry_size,
},
};

- perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0, 0);
- perf_sample_save_raw_data(&data, &raw);
-
perf_trace_buf_update(record, event_type);

hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry) {
- if (perf_tp_event_match(event, &data, regs))
+ if (perf_tp_event_match(event, &data, regs)) {
+ perf_sample_data_init(&data, 0, 0);
+ perf_sample_save_raw_data(&data, &raw);
perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
+ }
}

That is certainly the safe option. I just went through the list and
while there's certainly a number of options we'll recompute for naught,
most of them are indeed either dyn_size or event specific :/

So yeah, please send the above as v2.

OK, will send v2 according to above fix solution.

Thanks,
Yang.