perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order

Following error occurs when trying to use 'perf report' on x86_64 to
cross analysis a perf.data generated by an old perf on a big-endian
machine:

 # perf report
 *** Error in `/home/w00229757/perf': free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x00000000032c99f0 ***
 ======= Backtrace: =========
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x6eeef)[0x7ff6ff7e2eef]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x78cae)[0x7ff6ff7eccae]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x79987)[0x7ff6ff7ed987]
 /path/to/perf[0x4ac734]
 /path/to/perf[0x4ac829]
 /path/to/perf(perf_header__process_sections+0x129)[0x4ad2c9]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__read_header+0x2e1)[0x4ad9e1]
 /path/to/perf(perf_session__new+0x168)[0x4bd458]
 /path/to/perf(cmd_report+0xfa0)[0x43eb70]
 /path/to/perf[0x47adc3]
 /path/to/perf(main+0x5f6)[0x42fd06]
 /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf5)[0x7ff6ff795bd5]
 /path/to/perf[0x42fe35]
 ======= Memory map: ========
 [SNIP]

The bug is in perf_event__attr_swap(). It swaps all fields in 'struct
perf_event_attr' without checking whether the swapped field exist or
not. In addition, in read_event_desc() allocs memory for attr according
to size read from perf.data.

Therefore, if the perf.data is collected by an old perf (without
aux_watermark, for example), when perf_event__attr_swap() swaping
attr->aux_watermark it destroy malloc's metadata.

This patch introduces boundary checking in perf_event__attr_swap(). It
adds macros bswap_field_64 and bswap_field_32 into
perf_event__attr_swap() to make it only swap exist fields.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434534999-85347-1-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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