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perf symbols: Robustify reading of build-id from sysfs
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:19:21 +0000 (15:19 -0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Aug 2017 02:19:46 +0000 (19:19 -0700)
commit1286e959a59a5de214a2b812b67c40ea62106c1c
treef697e9a21086ba4c5305eddbe456c2966b150f69
parentcc8b62fce96bb532d919f4d141d6fcbbfc0bf19a
perf symbols: Robustify reading of build-id from sysfs

[ Upstream commit 7934c98a6e04028eb34c1293bfb5a6b0ab630b66 ]

Markus reported that perf segfaults when reading /sys/kernel/notes from
a kernel linked with GNU gold, due to what looks like a gold bug, so do
some bounds checking to avoid crashing in that case.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161219161821.GA294@x4
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ryhgs6a6jxvz207j2636w31c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c