An optimized build such as: make -C tools/perf CLANG=1 CC=clang EXTRA_CFLAGS="-O3 will turn the dereference operation into a ud2 instruction, raising a SIGILL rather than a SIGSEGV. Use raise(..) for correctness and clarity.
Similar issues were addressed in Numfor Mbiziwo-Tiapo's patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/7/8/1234 Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irog...@google.com> --- tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c index dbc27199c65e..dd865e0bea12 100644 --- a/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c +++ b/tools/perf/tests/perf-hooks.c @@ -19,12 +19,11 @@ static void sigsegv_handler(int sig __maybe_unused) static void the_hook(void *_hook_flags) { int *hook_flags = _hook_flags; - int *p = NULL; *hook_flags = 1234; /* Generate a segfault, test perf_hooks__recover */ - *p = 0; + raise(SIGSEGV); } int test__perf_hooks(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtest __maybe_unused) -- 2.23.0.351.gc4317032e6-goog
