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H A D | trace-event-parse.c | c9f23d2b Wed Aug 29 21:19:50 CDT 2018 Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com> perf event-parse: Use fixed size string for comms
Some implementations of libc do not support the 'm' width modifier as part of the scanf string format specifier. This can cause the parsing to fail. Since the parser never checks if the scanf parsing was successesful, this can result in a crash.
Change the comm string to be allocated as a fixed size instead of dynamically using 'm' scanf width modifier. This can be safely done since comm size is limited to 16 bytes by TASK_COMM_LEN within the kernel.
This change prevents perf from crashing when linked against bionic as well as reduces the total number of heap allocations and frees invoked while accomplishing the same task.
Signed-off-by: Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180830021950.15563-1-cphlipot0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> c9f23d2b Wed Aug 29 21:19:50 CDT 2018 Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com> perf event-parse: Use fixed size string for comms Some implementations of libc do not support the 'm' width modifier as part of the scanf string format specifier. This can cause the parsing to fail. Since the parser never checks if the scanf parsing was successesful, this can result in a crash. Change the comm string to be allocated as a fixed size instead of dynamically using 'm' scanf width modifier. This can be safely done since comm size is limited to 16 bytes by TASK_COMM_LEN within the kernel. This change prevents perf from crashing when linked against bionic as well as reduces the total number of heap allocations and frees invoked while accomplishing the same task. Signed-off-by: Chris Phlipot <cphlipot0@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180830021950.15563-1-cphlipot0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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