From 8530a7e98b58411a3c3317690df677996c3a100c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:52:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix segfault in cpu_cache_level__read() [ Upstream commit 0216234c2eed1367a318daeb9f4a97d8217412a0 ] We release wrong pointer on error path in cpu_cache_level__read function, leading to segfault: (gdb) r record ls Starting program: /root/perf/tools/perf/perf record ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] double free or corruption (out) Thread 1 "perf" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007ffff7463798 in raise () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7463798 in raise () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff7443bac in abort () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007ffff74af8bc in __libc_message () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007ffff74b92b8 in malloc_printerr () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 #4 0x00007ffff74bb874 in _int_free () from /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000010271260 in __zfree (ptr=0x7fffffffa0b0) at ../../lib/zalloc.. #6 0x0000000010139340 in cpu_cache_level__read (cache=0x7fffffffa090, cac.. #7 0x0000000010143c90 in build_caches (cntp=0x7fffffffa118, size= Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Michael Petlan Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org: # v4.6+ Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190912105235.10689-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- tools/perf/util/header.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c index 258b19b251a82..b3d947b98a7c2 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/header.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c @@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ static int cpu_cache_level__read(struct cpu_cache_level *cache, u32 cpu, u16 lev scnprintf(file, PATH_MAX, "%s/shared_cpu_list", path); if (sysfs__read_str(file, &cache->map, &len)) { - free(cache->map); + free(cache->size); free(cache->type); return -1; }