On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:34 AM, David Ahern <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
I'm still seeing it on 3.12-rc1. I haven't tested anything newer or in the perf git tree. Thanks > > David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
