[PATCH v1 2/2] perf srcline: Add a timeout to reading from addr2line

From: Ian Rogers
Date: Thu Jun 08 2023 - 02:20:57 EST


addr2line may fail to send expected values causing perf to wait
indefinitely. Add a 1 second timeout (twice the timeout for reading
from /proc/pid/maps) so that such reads don't cause perf to appear to
lock up.

There are already checks that the file for addr2line contains a debug
section but this isn't always sufficient. The problem was observed
when a valid elf file would set the configuration for binutils
addr2line, then a later read of vmlinux with ELF debug sections would
cause a failing write/read which would block indefinitely.

As a service to future readers, if the io hits eof or an error,
cleanup the addr2line process.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/config.c | 7 +++++--
tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 11 ++++++++---
tools/perf/util/srcline.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/config.c b/tools/perf/util/config.c
index f340dc73db6d..46f144c46827 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/config.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/config.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include "util/llvm-utils.h" /* perf_llvm_config */
#include "util/stat.h" /* perf_stat__set_big_num */
#include "util/evsel.h" /* evsel__hw_names, evsel__use_bpf_counters */
+#include "util/srcline.h" /* addr2line_timeout_ms */
#include "build-id.h"
#include "debug.h"
#include "config.h"
@@ -434,12 +435,14 @@ static int perf_buildid_config(const char *var, const char *value)
return 0;
}

-static int perf_default_core_config(const char *var __maybe_unused,
- const char *value __maybe_unused)
+static int perf_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
{
if (!strcmp(var, "core.proc-map-timeout"))
proc_map_timeout = strtoul(value, NULL, 10);

+ if (!strcmp(var, "core.addr2line-timeout"))
+ addr2line_timeout_ms = strtoul(value, NULL, 10);
+
/* Add other config variables here. */
return 0;
}
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
index cfca03abd6f8..e06a345c5d19 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
#include "symbol.h"
#include "subcmd/run-command.h"

+/* If addr2line doesn't return data for 1 second then timeout. */
+int addr2line_timeout_ms = 1 * 1000;
bool srcline_full_filename;

static const char *dso__name(struct dso *dso)
@@ -512,7 +514,6 @@ static int read_addr2line_record(struct io *io,
zfree(&line);
return 0;
}
-
if (function != NULL)
*function = strdup(strim(line));

@@ -574,7 +575,7 @@ static int addr2line(const char *dso_name, u64 addr,
int len;
char buf[128];
ssize_t written;
- struct io io;
+ struct io io = { .eof = false };
enum a2l_style a2l_style;

if (!a2l) {
@@ -616,7 +617,7 @@ static int addr2line(const char *dso_name, u64 addr,
goto out;
}
io__init(&io, a2l->out, buf, sizeof(buf));
-
+ io.timeout_ms = addr2line_timeout_ms;
switch (read_addr2line_record(&io, a2l_style,
&record_function, &record_filename, &record_line_nr)) {
case -1:
@@ -686,6 +687,10 @@ static int addr2line(const char *dso_name, u64 addr,
out:
free(record_function);
free(record_filename);
+ if (io.eof) {
+ dso->a2l = NULL;
+ addr2line_subprocess_cleanup(a2l);
+ }
return ret;
}

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/srcline.h b/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
index b11a0aaaa676..35a5ff3e78f5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
struct dso;
struct symbol;

+extern int addr2line_timeout_ms;
extern bool srcline_full_filename;
char *get_srcline(struct dso *dso, u64 addr, struct symbol *sym,
bool show_sym, bool show_addr, u64 ip);
--
2.41.0.rc0.172.g3f132b7071-goog