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Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:35:54 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 10/11] perf intel-pt: Smatch: Fix potential NULL
 pointer dereference
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Hi Adrian,

On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 02:07:40PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 2/07/19 1:34 PM, Leo Yan wrote:
> > Based on the following report from Smatch, fix the potential
> > NULL pointer dereference check.
> 
> It never is NULL.  Remove the NULL test if you want:
> 
> -	if (session->itrace_synth_opts && session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> +	if (session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> 
> But blindly making changes like below is questionable.

Thanks for suggestions.

I checked report and script commands, as you said, both command will
always set session->itrace_synth_opts.  For these two commands, we can
safely remove the NULL test.

Because perf tool contains many sub commands, so I don't have much
confidence it's very safe to remove the NULL test for all cases; e.g.
there have cases which will process aux trace buffer but without
itrace options; for this case, session->itrace_synth_opts might be NULL.

For either way (remove NULL test or keep NULL test), I don't want to
introduce regression and extra efforts by my patch.  So want to double
confirm with you for this :)

Thanks,
Leo Yan

> >   tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:3200
> >   intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() error: we previously assumed
> >   'session->itrace_synth_opts' could be null (see line 3196)
> > 
> >   tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c:3206
> >   intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info() warn: variable dereferenced before
> >   check 'session->itrace_synth_opts' (see line 3200)
> > 
> > tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> > 3196         if (session->itrace_synth_opts && session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> > 3197                 pt->synth_opts = *session->itrace_synth_opts;
> > 3198         } else {
> > 3199                 itrace_synth_opts__set_default(&pt->synth_opts,
> > 3200                                 session->itrace_synth_opts->default_no_sample);
> >                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 3201                 if (!session->itrace_synth_opts->default_no_sample &&
> > 3202                     !session->itrace_synth_opts->inject) {
> > 3203                         pt->synth_opts.branches = false;
> > 3204                         pt->synth_opts.callchain = true;
> > 3205                 }
> > 3206                 if (session->itrace_synth_opts)
> >                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 3207                         pt->synth_opts.thread_stack =
> > 3208                                 session->itrace_synth_opts->thread_stack;
> > 3209         }
> > 
> > To dismiss the potential NULL pointer dereference, this patch validates
> > the pointer 'session->itrace_synth_opts' before access its elements.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c | 5 ++---
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> > index 550db6e77968..88b567bdf1f9 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt.c
> > @@ -3195,7 +3195,7 @@ int intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
> >  
> >  	if (session->itrace_synth_opts && session->itrace_synth_opts->set) {
> >  		pt->synth_opts = *session->itrace_synth_opts;
> > -	} else {
> > +	} else if (session->itrace_synth_opts) {
> >  		itrace_synth_opts__set_default(&pt->synth_opts,
> >  				session->itrace_synth_opts->default_no_sample);
> >  		if (!session->itrace_synth_opts->default_no_sample &&
> > @@ -3203,8 +3203,7 @@ int intel_pt_process_auxtrace_info(union perf_event *event,
> >  			pt->synth_opts.branches = false;
> >  			pt->synth_opts.callchain = true;
> >  		}
> > -		if (session->itrace_synth_opts)
> > -			pt->synth_opts.thread_stack =
> > +		pt->synth_opts.thread_stack =
> >  				session->itrace_synth_opts->thread_stack;
> >  	}
> >  
> > 
>