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Commit b371b594 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/x86: Fix event/group validation

Commit 43b45780 ("perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of
x86_schedule_events()") violated the rule that 'fake' scheduling; as
used for event/group validation; should not change the event state.

This went mostly un-noticed because repeated calls of
x86_pmu::get_event_constraints() would give the same result. And
x86_pmu::put_event_constraints() would mostly not do anything.

Commit e979121b

 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement cross-HT corruption
bug workaround") made the situation much worse by actually setting the
event->hw.constraint value to NULL, so when validation and actual
scheduling interact we get NULL ptr derefs.

Fix it by removing the constraint pointer from the event and move it
back to an array, this time in cpuc instead of on the stack.

validate_group()
  x86_schedule_events()
    event->hw.constraint = c; # store

      <context switch>
        perf_task_event_sched_in()
          ...
            x86_schedule_events();
              event->hw.constraint = c2; # store

              ...

              put_event_constraints(event); # assume failure to schedule
                intel_put_event_constraints()
                  event->hw.constraint = NULL;

      <context switch end>

    c = event->hw.constraint; # read -> NULL

    if (!test_bit(hwc->idx, c->idxmsk)) # <- *BOOM* NULL deref

This in particular is possible when the event in question is a
cpu-wide event and group-leader, where the validate_group() tries to
add an event to the group.

Reported-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 43b45780 ("perf/x86: Reduce stack usage of x86_schedule_events()")
Fixes: e979121b

 ("perf/x86/intel: Implement cross-HT corruption bug workaround")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent dead9f29
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