linux/tools
Milos Vyletel 0635b0f714 perf tools: Fix race in build_id_cache__add_s()
int build_id_cache__add_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir,
                          const char *name, bool is_kallsyms, bool is_vdso)
{
...
        if (access(filename, F_OK)) {
               ^--------------------------------------------------------- [1]
                if (is_kallsyms) {
                         if (copyfile("/proc/kallsyms", filename))
                                goto out_free;
                } else if (link(realname, filename) && copyfile(name, filename))
                             ^-----------------------------^------------- [2]
                                                            \------------ [3]
                        goto out_free;
        }
...

When multiple instances of perf record get to [1] at more or less same time and
run access() one or more may get failure because the file does not exist yet
(since the first instance did not have chance to link it yet).

At this point the race moves to link() at [2] where first thread to get
there links file and goes on but second one gets -EEXIST so it runs
copyfile [3] which truncates the file.

reproducer:

rm -rf /root/.debug
for cpu in $(awk '/processor/ {print $3}' /proc/cpuinfo); do
	perf record -a -v -T -F 1000 -C $cpu \
		-o perf-${cpu}.data sleep 5 2> /dev/null &
done
wait

and simply search for empty files by:

find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/* -size 0

Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426847846-11112-1-git-send-email-milos@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2015-03-20 17:49:50 -03:00
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build perf build: Display make commands on V=1 2015-02-12 17:57:10 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
hv Tools: hv: do not add redundant '/' in hv_start_fcopy() 2015-01-25 09:17:57 -08:00
include tools: Remove bitops/hweight usage of bits in tools/perf 2015-01-16 17:49:29 -03:00
lguest tools/lguest: don't use legacy definitions for net device in example launcher. 2015-02-13 17:15:55 +10:30
lib Linux 34.0-rc1 2015-02-26 12:24:50 +01:00
net
nfsd
perf perf tools: Fix race in build_id_cache__add_s() 2015-03-20 17:49:50 -03:00
power Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq', 'pm-cpuidle', 'pm-devfreq', 'pm-opp' and 'pm-tools' 2015-02-13 21:39:06 +01:00
scripts
testing The following ktest updates were done: 2015-02-12 08:36:38 -08:00
thermal/tmon calloc/xcalloc: Fix argument order 2014-12-09 10:06:29 -03:00
time tools: add script to test udelay 2014-07-23 10:16:38 -07:00
usb tools: ffs-aio-example: use endpoint addresses from descriptors 2015-01-15 09:41:49 -06:00
virtio tools/virtio: add virtio 1.0 in vringh_test 2014-12-15 23:49:22 +02:00
vm mm:add KPF_ZERO_PAGE flag for /proc/kpageflags 2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
Makefile