On 9/25/13 11:20 PM, Sonny Rao wrote:
We recently ran into a corrupt perf data file which mostly looked okay
but the section size for data was set to 0. This caused perf report to
get into an infinite loop in __perf_session_process_events(). Let's
just avoid this by bailing early and reporting it if there's an
invalid header.
Been suggested before:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/9/405
Other changes went in around that time as well. Are you still seeing the
loop on latest source?
David
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