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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-05-21 11:07:24 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-05-21 21:12:13 -0400
commiteac9eacee1602710dda47c517ad0b61ac6f429bf (patch)
treeea59e724cec133e301cd73306e31362a1ddfe8f3 /tools/perf/util
parentc5fc472171ec4f96d06d1ac039d88f9b89bb95db (diff)
perf tools: Check we are able to read the event size on mmap
Check we have enough mmaped space to read the current event size from its headers, otherwise we may dereference some hell there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/session.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
index fff66741f18d..61746b5866d8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/session.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/session.c
@@ -1007,6 +1007,13 @@ remap:
1007 file_pos = file_offset + head; 1007 file_pos = file_offset + head;
1008 1008
1009more: 1009more:
1010 /*
1011 * Ensure we have enough space remaining to read
1012 * the size of the event in the headers.
1013 */
1014 if (head + sizeof(event->header) > mmap_size)
1015 goto remap;
1016
1010 event = (union perf_event *)(buf + head); 1017 event = (union perf_event *)(buf + head);
1011 1018
1012 if (session->header.needs_swap) 1019 if (session->header.needs_swap)