perf list: Avoid potential out of bounds memory read

If a desc string is 0 length then -1 will be out of bounds, add a
check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@huawei.com>
Cc: Clément Le Goffic <clement.legoffic@foss.st.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Cc: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Jing Zhang <renyu.zj@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Junhao He <hejunhao3@huawei.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linux.dev>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Cc: Sun Haiyong <sunhaiyong@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Veronika Molnarova <vmolnaro@redhat.com>
Cc: Weilin Wang <weilin.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Ze Gao <zegao2021@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240907050830.6752-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
index 82cb4b1010aa36cb0f63a033c0156a7015842f89..65b8cba324be4b6071786161dd2b48f12acc65de 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-list.c
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ static void default_print_event(void *ps, const char *pmu_name, const char *topi
                if (pmu_name && strcmp(pmu_name, "default_core")) {
                        desc_len = strlen(desc);
                        desc_len = asprintf(&desc_with_unit,
-                                           desc[desc_len - 1] != '.'
+                                           desc_len > 0 && desc[desc_len - 1] != '.'
                                              ? "%s. Unit: %s" : "%s Unit: %s",
                                            desc, pmu_name);
                }