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authorPierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>2009-08-07 12:16:00 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-08-09 10:54:39 (GMT)
commit7eac7e9e726c1b136bd7e0ad6671ce315f48bb18 (patch)
tree17762cc0b140096e80e6ff509cc423f8e62db7e6 /tools
parentae07b63f4b6728e1f98aa5c5416cfc1280f59f51 (diff)
downloadlinux-7eac7e9e726c1b136bd7e0ad6671ce315f48bb18.tar.xz
perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
While toying with perf, I've noticed that perf record can easily enter a busy loop when doing something as silly as: $ perf record -A ls Yeah, do_read here really wants to read a known size, not being able to should die(), not busy-loop ;) That was the cause for the bug. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/header.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 95a44bc..b92a457 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ static void do_read(int fd, void *buf, size_t size)
if (ret < 0)
die("failed to read");
+ if (ret == 0)
+ die("failed to read: missing data");
size -= ret;
buf += ret;