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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf: fix buffer overflow error caused by specifying all tracepoints with -e option
Em Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:39:22PM +0800, Han Pingtian escreveu:
> I found when specifying all tracepoints with -e to one of subcommand,
> such as 'top', the program will trigger a buffer overflow error, like
> this:
>
> *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./perf terminated
> ======= Backtrace: =========
<SNIP>
> ....
> The tracepoints are separated by comma, something like this:
>
> perf top -e ...,kmem:kmalloc,kmem:kfree,kmem:kmem_cache_free,...
>
> This comment will fix this problem.
>
> The root reason of this problem is that store_event_type() is called
> with all the events, and will overflow the 'filename' at
>
> strncat(filename, orgname, strlen(orgname));
>
> The comments will try to call store_event_type() when the event name has
> been found out.

s/comments/patch/g, right? Other than that looks fine, applying.

- Arnaldo


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