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Our local MSAN (Memory Sanitizer) build of perf throws a warning that comes from the "dso__disassemble_filename" function in "tools/perf/util/annotate.c" when running perf record. The warning stems from the call to readlink, in which "build_id_path" was being read into "linkname". Since readlink does not null terminate, an uninitialized memory access would later occur when "linkname" is passed into the strstr function. This is simply fixed by null-terminating "linkname" after the call to readlink. To reproduce this warning, build perf by running: $ make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=memory -fsanitize-memory-track-origins" (Additionally, llvm might have to be installed and clang might have to be specified as the compiler - export CC=/usr/bin/clang) Then running: tools/perf/perf record -o - ls / | tools/perf/perf --no-pager annotate -i - --stdio Please see the cover letter for why false positive warnings may be generated. Signed-off-by: Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo <nums@google.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Mark Drayton <mbd@fb.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190729205750.193289-1-nums@google.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.