From: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Du Changbin reported crash [1] when calling perf_hpp__reset_output_field() after unregistering field via perf_hpp__column_unregister().
This ends up in calling following list_del* sequence on the same format: perf_hpp__column_unregister: list_del(&format->list); perf_hpp__reset_output_field: list_del_init(&fmt->list); where the later list_del_init might touch already freed formats. Fixing this by replacing list_del() with list_del_init() in perf_hpp__column_unregister(). [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=149059595826019&w=2 Reported-by: Changbin Du <changbin...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao....@linux.intel.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013083736.15037-2-jo...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/ui/hist.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c index ddb2c6fbdf91..6ee6b36bbc76 100644 --- a/tools/perf/ui/hist.c +++ b/tools/perf/ui/hist.c @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ void perf_hpp_list__prepend_sort_field(struct perf_hpp_list *list, void perf_hpp__column_unregister(struct perf_hpp_fmt *format) { - list_del(&format->list); + list_del_init(&format->list); } void perf_hpp__cancel_cumulate(void) -- 2.13.6