From d773c999b8d22ad3ffd42eca373ebae4cb6512fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:33:52 -0700
Subject: perf events: Prefer union over variable length array

It is possible for casts to introduce alignment issues, prefer a union
for perf_record_event_update.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev <alexey.v.bayduraev@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Cc: German Gomez <german.gomez@arm.com>
Cc: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Kook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Riccardo Mancini <rickyman7@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220614143353.1559597-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c')

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
index 538790758e24..851d11a64b0d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/synthetic-events.c
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_unit(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evse
 	if (ev == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	strlcpy(ev->data, evsel->unit, size + 1);
+	strlcpy(ev->unit, evsel->unit, size + 1);
 	err = process(tool, (union perf_event *)ev, NULL, NULL);
 	free(ev);
 	return err;
@@ -1972,8 +1972,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_scale(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evs
 	if (ev == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ev_data = (struct perf_record_event_update_scale *)ev->data;
-	ev_data->scale = evsel->scale;
+	ev->scale.scale = evsel->scale;
 	err = process(tool, (union perf_event *)ev, NULL, NULL);
 	free(ev);
 	return err;
@@ -1990,7 +1989,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evse
 	if (ev == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	strlcpy(ev->data, evsel->name, len + 1);
+	strlcpy(ev->name, evsel->name, len + 1);
 	err = process(tool, (union perf_event *)ev, NULL, NULL);
 	free(ev);
 	return err;
@@ -1999,7 +1998,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_name(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evse
 int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_cpus(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evsel *evsel,
 					     perf_event__handler_t process)
 {
-	size_t size = sizeof(struct perf_record_event_update);
+	size_t size = sizeof(struct perf_event_header) + sizeof(u64) + sizeof(u64);
 	struct perf_record_event_update *ev;
 	int max, err;
 	u16 type;
@@ -2016,8 +2015,7 @@ int perf_event__synthesize_event_update_cpus(struct perf_tool *tool, struct evse
 	ev->type	= PERF_EVENT_UPDATE__CPUS;
 	ev->id		= evsel->core.id[0];
 
-	cpu_map_data__synthesize((struct perf_record_cpu_map_data *)ev->data,
-				 evsel->core.own_cpus, type, max);
+	cpu_map_data__synthesize(&ev->cpus.cpus, evsel->core.own_cpus, type, max);
 
 	err = process(tool, (union perf_event *)ev, NULL, NULL);
 	free(ev);
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