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authorhupu <[email protected]>2025-09-10 08:16:55 +0000
committerNamhyung Kim <[email protected]>2025-09-13 00:51:35 +0000
commita5edf3550f4260504b7e0ab3d40d13ffe924b773 (patch)
treee1eef70cf334bb3d60b11238dd1d03cdc23cf911
parentperf symbol-elf: Add support for the block argument for libbfd (diff)
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perf subcmd: avoid crash in exclude_cmds when excludes is empty
When cross-compiling the perf tool for ARM64, `perf help` may crash with the following assertion failure: help.c:122: exclude_cmds: Assertion `cmds->names[ci] == NULL' failed. This happens when the perf binary is not named exactly "perf" or when multiple "perf-*" binaries exist in the same directory. In such cases, the `excludes` command list can be empty, which leads to the final assertion in exclude_cmds() being triggered. Add a simple guard at the beginning of exclude_cmds() to return early if excludes->cnt is zero, preventing the crash. Signed-off-by: hupu <[email protected]> Reported-by: Guilherme Amadio <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/subcmd/help.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c b/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
index 9ef569492560..ddaeb4eb3e24 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/help.c
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ void exclude_cmds(struct cmdnames *cmds, struct cmdnames *excludes)
size_t ci, cj, ei;
int cmp;
+ if (!excludes->cnt)
+ return;
+
ci = cj = ei = 0;
while (ci < cmds->cnt && ei < excludes->cnt) {
cmp = strcmp(cmds->names[ci]->name, excludes->names[ei]->name);