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perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB
authorLeo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Fri, 8 Aug 2025 13:24:40 +0000 (14:24 +0100)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:44:10 +0000 (12:44 -0300)
commitc17dda8013495d8132c976cbf349be9949d0fbd1
tree23de7133d066b31c1c69eac7e81f8b3826b895da
parenta8f0992998af9ea1135ee6415c68c1d84cb5ad22
perf session: Fix handling when buffer exceeds 2 GiB

If a user specifies an AUX buffer larger than 2 GiB, the returned size
may exceed 0x80000000. Since the err variable is defined as a signed
32-bit integer, such a value overflows and becomes negative.

As a result, the perf record command reports an error:

  0x146e8 [0x30]: failed to process type: 71 [Unknown error 183711232]

Change the type of the err variable to a signed 64-bit integer to
accommodate large buffer sizes correctly.

Fixes: d5652d865ea734a1 ("perf session: Add ability to skip 4GiB or more")
Reported-by: Tamas Zsoldos <tamas.zsoldos@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250808-perf_fix_big_buffer_size-v1-1-45f45444a9a4@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/session.c