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<title>perf bpf-filter: Fix a parsing error with comma</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:50+00:00</updated>
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<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-03-07T22:09:21+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 35d13f841a3d8159ef20d5e32a9ed3faa27875bc ]

The previous change to support cgroup filters introduced a bug that
pathname can include commas.  It confused the lexer to treat an item and
the trailing comma as a single token.  And it resulted in a parse error:

  $ sudo perf record -e cycles:P --filter 'period &gt; 0, ip &gt; 64' -- true
  perf_bpf_filter: Error: Unexpected item: 0,
  perf_bpf_filter: syntax error, unexpected BFT_ERROR, expecting BFT_NUM

   Usage: perf record [&lt;options&gt;] [&lt;command&gt;]
      or: perf record [&lt;options&gt;] -- &lt;command&gt; [&lt;options&gt;]

          --filter &lt;filter&gt;
                            event filter

It should get "0" and "," separately.

An easiest fix would be to remove "," from the possible pathname
characters.  As it's for cgroup names, probably ok to assume it won't
have commas in the pathname.

I found that the existing BPF filtering test didn't have any complex
filter condition with commas.  Let's update the group filter test which
is supposed to test filter combinations like this.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307220922.434319-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 91e88437d5156b20 ("perf bpf-filter: Support filtering on cgroups")
Reported-by: Sally Shi &lt;sshii@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: intel-tpebs: Fix incorrect usage of zfree()</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2025-03-19T10:16:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6d2dcd635204c023eb5328ad7d38b198a5558c9b ]

zfree() requires an address otherwise it frees what's in name, rather
than name itself. Pass the address of name to fix it.

This was the only incorrect occurrence in Perf found using a search.

Fixes: 8db5cabcf1b6 ("perf stat: Fork and launch 'perf record' when 'perf stat' needs to get retire latency value for a metric.")
Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319101614.190922-1-james.clark@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf dso: fix dso__is_kallsyms() check</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Brennan</name>
<email>stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-18T23:00:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ebf0b332732dcc64239119e554faa946562b0b93 ]

Kernel modules for which we cannot find a file on-disk will have a
dso-&gt;long_name that looks like "[module_name]". Prior to the commit
listed in the fixes, the dso-&gt;kernel field would be zero (for user
space), so dso__is_kallsyms() would return false. After the commit,
kernel module DSOs are correctly labeled, but the result is that
dso__is_kallsyms() erroneously returns true for those modules without a
filesystem path.

Later, build_id_cache__add() consults this value of is_kallsyms, and
when true, it copies /proc/kallsyms into the cache. Users with many
kernel modules without a filesystem path (e.g. ksplice or possibly
kernel live patch modules) have reported excessive disk space usage in
the build ID cache directory due to this behavior.

To reproduce the issue, it's enough to build a trivial out-of-tree hello
world kernel module, load it using insmod, and then use:

   perf record -ag -- sleep 1

In the build ID directory, there will be a directory for your module
name containing a kallsyms file.

Fix this up by changing dso__is_kallsyms() to consult the
dso_binary_type enumeration, which is also symmetric to the above checks
for dso__is_vmlinux() and dso__is_kcore(). With this change, kallsyms is
not cached in the build-id cache for out-of-tree modules.

Fixes: 02213cec64bbe ("perf maps: Mark module DSOs with kernel type")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan &lt;stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318230012.2038790-1-stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf python: Check if there is space to copy all the event</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-12T20:31:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 89aaeaf84231157288035b366cb6300c1c6cac64 ]

The pyrf_event__new() method copies the event obtained from the perf
ring buffer to a structure that will then be turned into a python object
for further consumption, so it copies perf_event.header.size bytes to
its 'event' member:

  $ pahole -C pyrf_event /tmp/build/perf-tools-next/python/perf.cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
  struct pyrf_event {
  	PyObject                   ob_base;              /*     0    16 */
  	struct evsel *             evsel;                /*    16     8 */
  	struct perf_sample         sample;               /*    24   312 */

  	/* XXX last struct has 7 bytes of padding, 2 holes */

  	/* --- cacheline 5 boundary (320 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
  	union perf_event           event;                /*   336  4168 */

  	/* size: 4504, cachelines: 71, members: 4 */
  	/* member types with holes: 1, total: 2 */
  	/* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 7 */
  	/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
  };

  $

It was doing so without checking if the event just obtained has more
than that space, fix it.

This isn't a proper, final solution, as we need to support larger
events, but for the time being we at least bounds check and document it.

Fixes: 877108e42b1b9ba6 ("perf tools: Initial python binding")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-7-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf python: Don't keep a raw_data pointer to consumed ring buffer space</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-12T20:31:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f3fed3ae34d606819d87a63d970cc3092a5be7ab ]

When processing tracepoints the perf python binding was parsing the
event before calling perf_mmap__consume(&amp;md-&gt;core) in
pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu().

But part of this event parsing was to set the perf_sample-&gt;raw_data
pointer to the payload of the event, which then could be overwritten by
other event before tracepoint fields were asked for via event.prev_comm
in a python program, for instance.

This also happened with other fields, but strings were were problems
were surfacing, as there is UTF-8 validation for the potentially garbled
data.

This ended up showing up as (with some added debugging messages):

  ( field 'prev_comm' ret=0x7f7c31f65110, raw_size=68 )  ( field 'prev_pid' ret=0x7f7c23b1bed0, raw_size=68 )  ( field 'prev_prio' ret=0x7f7c239c0030, raw_size=68 )  ( field 'prev_state' ret=0x7f7c239c0250, raw_size=68 ) time 14771421785867 prev_comm= prev_pid=1919907691 prev_prio=796026219 prev_state=0x303a32313175 ==&gt;
  ( XXX '��' len=16, raw_size=68)  ( field 'next_comm' ret=(nil), raw_size=68 ) Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py", line 51, in &lt;module&gt;
     main()
   File "/home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py", line 46, in main
     event.next_comm,
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  AttributeError: 'perf.sample_event' object has no attribute 'next_comm'

When event.next_comm was asked for, the PyUnicode_FromString() python
API would fail and that tracepoint field wouldn't be available, stopping
the tools/perf/python/tracepoint.py test tool.

But, since we already do a copy of the whole event in pyrf_event__new,
just use it and while at it remove what was done in in e8968e654191390a
("perf python: Fix pyrf_evlist__read_on_cpu event consuming") because we
don't really need to wait for parsing the sample before declaring the
event as consumed.

This copy is questionable as is now, as it limits the maximum event +
sample_type and tracepoint payload to sizeof(union perf_event), this all
has been "working" because 'struct perf_event_mmap2', the largest entry
in 'union perf_event' is:

  $ pahole -C perf_event ~/bin/perf | grep mmap2
	struct perf_record_mmap2   mmap2;              /*     0  4168 */
  $

Fixes: bae57e3825a3dded ("perf python: Add support to resolve tracepoint fields")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-6-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf python: Decrement the refcount of just created event on failure</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-12T20:31:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3de5a2bf5b4847f7a59a184568f969f8fe05d57f ]

To avoid a leak if we have the python object but then something happens
and we need to return the operation, decrement the offset of the newly
created object.

Fixes: 377f698db12150a1 ("perf python: Add struct evsel into struct pyrf_event")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-5-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf python: Fixup description of sample.id event member</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-12T20:31:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1376c195e8ad327bb9f2d32e0acc5ac39e7cb30a ]

Some old cut'n'paste error, its "ip", so the description should be
"event ip", not "event type".

Fixes: 877108e42b1b9ba6 ("perf tools: Initial python binding")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312203141.285263-2-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf units: Fix insufficient array space</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-10T19:45:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cf67629f7f637fb988228abdb3aae46d0c1748fe ]

No need to specify the array size, let the compiler figure that out.

This addresses this compiler warning that was noticed while build
testing on fedora rawhide:

  31    15.81 fedora:rawhide                : FAIL gcc version 15.0.1 20250225 (Red Hat 15.0.1-0) (GCC)
    util/units.c: In function 'unit_number__scnprintf':
    util/units.c:67:24: error: initializer-string for array of 'char' is too long [-Werror=unterminated-string-initialization]
       67 |         char unit[4] = "BKMG";
          |                        ^~~~~~
    cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Fixes: 9808143ba2e54818 ("perf tools: Add unit_number__scnprintf function")
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310194534.265487-3-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>perf evlist: Add success path to evlist__create_syswide_maps</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:22:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fe0ce8a9d85a48642880c9b78944cb0d23e779c5 ]

Over various refactorings evlist__create_syswide_maps has been made to
only ever return with -ENOMEM. Fix this so that when
perf_evlist__set_maps is successfully called, 0 is returned.

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu &lt;howardchu95@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228222308.626803-3-irogers@google.com
Fixes: 8c0498b6891d7ca5 ("perf evlist: Fix create_syswide_maps() not propagating maps")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf debug: Avoid stack overflow in recursive error message</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:41:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:22:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bda840191d2aae3b7cadc3ac21835dcf29487191 ]

In debug_file, pr_warning_once is called on error. As that function
calls debug_file the function will yield a stack overflow. Switch the
location of the call so the recursion is avoided.

Reviewed-by: Howard Chu &lt;howardchu95@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250228222308.626803-2-irogers@google.com
Fixes: ec49230cf6dda704 ("perf debug: Expose debug file")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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