linux_dsm_epyc7002/tools
Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo 20f9781f49 perf header: Fix use of unitialized value warning
When building our local version of perf with MSAN (Memory Sanitizer) and
running the perf record command, MSAN throws a use of uninitialized
value warning in "tools/perf/util/util.c:333:6".

This warning stems from the "buf" variable being passed into "write".
It originated as the variable "ev" with the type union perf_event*
defined in the "perf_event__synthesize_attr" function in
"tools/perf/util/header.c".

In the "perf_event__synthesize_attr" function they allocate space with a malloc
call using ev, then go on to only assign some of the member variables before
passing "ev" on as a parameter to the "process" function therefore "ev"
contains uninitialized memory. Changing the malloc call to zalloc to initialize
all the members of "ev" which gets rid of the warning.

To reproduce this warning, build perf by running:
make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=memory\
 -fsanitize-memory-track-origins"

(Additionally, llvm might have to be installed and clang might have to
be specified as the compiler - export CC=/usr/bin/clang)

then running:
tools/perf/perf record -o - ls / | tools/perf/perf --no-pager annotate\
 -i - --stdio

Please see the cover letter for why false positive warnings may be
generated.

Signed-off-by: Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo <nums@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Drayton <mbd@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190724234500.253358-2-nums@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2019-07-29 09:03:43 -03:00
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accounting
arch tools headers UAPI: Update tools's copy of mman.h headers 2019-07-29 09:02:58 -03:00
bpf tools: bpftool: add raw_tracepoint_writable prog type to header 2019-07-12 15:14:42 +02:00
build
cgroup
crypto
debugging
firewire
firmware Driver Core and debugfs changes for 5.3-rc1 2019-07-12 12:24:03 -07:00
gpio Bulk GPIO changes for the v5.3 kernel cycle: 2019-07-09 09:07:00 -07:00
hv
iio
include tools headers UAPI: Sync if_link.h with the kernel 2019-07-29 09:03:43 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-07-19 10:06:06 -07:00
memory-model
nfsd
objtool objtool: Support conditional retpolines 2019-07-18 21:01:10 +02:00
pci pci-v5.3-changes 2019-07-15 20:44:49 -07:00
pcmcia
perf perf header: Fix use of unitialized value warning 2019-07-29 09:03:43 -03:00
power kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR 2019-07-18 02:19:31 +09:00
scripts perf build: Do not use -Wshadow on gcc < 4.8 2019-07-23 09:04:54 -03:00
spi
testing New feature to add support for NTB virtual MSI interrupts, the ability 2019-07-21 09:46:59 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb
virtio
vm tools/vm/slabinfo: add sorting info to help menu 2019-07-12 11:05:46 -07:00
wmi
Makefile