[PATCH 1/2] perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Fixing this symptom:
[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$ perf record -a -f
Fatal: Permission error - are you root?
Bus error
[acme@mica linux-2.6-tip]$
I.e. if for some reason no data is collected, in this case a non root user
trying to do systemwide profiling, no data will be collected, and then we end
up trying to mmap a zero sized file and access the file header, b00m.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fwei...@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zi...@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: sta...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <ac...@redhat.com>
---
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index f573bbb..3bf1409 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ static int process_buildids(void)
{
u64 size = lseek(output, 0, SEEK_CUR);
+ if (size == 0)
+ return 0;
+
session->fd = output;
return __perf_session__process_events(session, post_processing_offset,
size - post_processing_offset,
--
1.5.5.1
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