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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf: buildid-cache zero out buffer of filenames when adding/remoing buildid
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:13:14AM +0800, Han Pingtian wrote:
> readlink() doesn't append a null byte to buf. So we should zero out buf
> with zalloc(). Or we'll see sometimes error like this:
>
> [root@intel-s3e36-01]~# /usr/bin/perf buildid-cache -a /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko -v
> Adding f64ba8efd5f53c7ad332fc17db1d21de309038e1 /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko: Ok
> [root@intel-s3e36-01]~# /usr/bin/perf buildid-cache -r /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko -v
> Removing f64ba8efd5f53c7ad332fc17db1d21de309038e1 /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko: FAIL
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-130.el6.x86_64/kernel/crypto/twofish_common.ko wasn't in the cache
>
> The change in build_id_cache__add_s() is a defense.
>
> Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>

works for me

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

> ---
> tools/perf/util/header.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> index afb0849..36d723d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
> @@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
> const char *name, bool is_kallsyms)
> {
> const size_t size = PATH_MAX;
> - char *realname, *filename = malloc(size),
> - *linkname = malloc(size), *targetname;
> + char *realname, *filename = zalloc(size),
> + *linkname = zalloc(size), *targetname;
> int len, err = -1;
>
> if (is_kallsyms) {
> @@ -254,8 +254,8 @@ static int build_id_cache__add_b(const u8 *build_id, size_t build_id_size,
> int build_id_cache__remove_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir)
> {
> const size_t size = PATH_MAX;
> - char *filename = malloc(size),
> - *linkname = malloc(size);
> + char *filename = zalloc(size),
> + *linkname = zalloc(size);
> int err = -1;
>
> if (filename == NULL || linkname == NULL)
> --
> 1.7.1


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