perf tools: Fix strlen() bug in perf_event__synthesize_event_type()

The event_type record has a max length for the event name.

It's called MAX_EVENT_NAME.

The name may be truncated to fit the max length. But the header.size still
reflects the original name length. If that length is > MAX_EVENT_NAME, then the
header.size field is bogus. Fix this by using the length of the name after the
potential truncation.

Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120120094912.GA4882@quad
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index 3e7e0b09c12c29339f3853c469dc0c3cc2d0d71c..ecd7f4dd7eea0156eb4e059eb335089d416d9c0b 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -2105,7 +2105,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_type(struct perf_tool *tool,
        strncpy(ev.event_type.event_type.name, name, MAX_EVENT_NAME - 1);
 
        ev.event_type.header.type = PERF_RECORD_HEADER_EVENT_TYPE;
-       size = strlen(name);
+       size = strlen(ev.event_type.event_type.name);
        size = ALIGN(size, sizeof(u64));
        ev.event_type.header.size = sizeof(ev.event_type) -
                (sizeof(ev.event_type.event_type.name) - size);