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Commit 2dc0572f authored by Kan Liang's avatar Kan Liang Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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perf/x86/intel: Fix unchecked MSR access error caused by VLBR_EVENT

On a Haswell machine, the perf_fuzzer managed to trigger this message:

[117248.075892] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x3f1 (tried to
write 0x0400000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff8106e4f4
(native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
[117248.089957] Call Trace:
[117248.092685]  intel_pmu_pebs_enable_all+0x31/0x40
[117248.097737]  intel_pmu_enable_all+0xa/0x10
[117248.102210]  __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x2df/0x2f0
[117248.107511]  finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x15f/0x280
[117248.112765]  schedule_tail+0xc/0x40
[117248.116562]  ret_from_fork+0x8/0x30

A fake event called VLBR_EVENT may use the bit 58 of the PEBS_ENABLE, if
the precise_ip is set. The bit 58 is reserved by the HW. Accessing the
bit causes the unchecked MSR access error.

The fake event doesn't support PEBS. The case should be rejected.

Fixes: 097e4311

 ("perf/x86: Add constraint to create guest LBR event without hw counter")
Reported-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615555298-140216-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
parent d88d05a9
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