From 205af59e7011a3ea683cf1178c889ca3a9bbc640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:16:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Disallow precise_ip on BTS events commit 472de49fdc53365c880ab81ae2b5cfdd83db0b06 upstream. Vince reported a crash in the BTS flush code when touching the callchain data, which was supposed to be initialized as an 'early' callchain, but intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() does not do that: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 ... Call Trace: intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x151/0x220 ? intel_get_event_constraints+0x219/0x360 ? perf_assign_events+0xe2/0x2a0 ? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3a0 ? __update_load_avg_se+0x1ec/0x270 ? enqueue_task_fair+0x377/0xdd0 ? cpumask_next_and+0x19/0x20 ? load_balance+0x134/0x950 ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90 ? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140 x86_pmu_stop+0x3b/0x90 x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x160 event_sched_out.isra.106+0x81/0x170 group_sched_out.part.108+0x51/0xc0 __perf_event_disable+0x7f/0x160 event_function+0x8c/0xd0 remote_function+0x3c/0x50 flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x35/0xe0 smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3a/0xd0 call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20 It was triggered by fuzzer but can be easily reproduced by: # perf record -e cpu/branch-instructions/pu -g -c 1 Peter suggested not to allow branch tracing for precise events: > Now arguably, this is really stupid behaviour. Who in his right mind > wants callchain output on BTS entries. And even if they do, BTS + > precise_ip is nonsensical. > > So in my mind disallowing precise_ip on BTS would be the simplest fix. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 6cbc304f2f36 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121101612.16272-3-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c index 3e8b2a4..155fa4b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c @@ -2990,6 +2990,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_bts_config(struct perf_event *event) if (!attr->exclude_kernel) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + /* BTS is not allowed for precise events. */ + if (attr->precise_ip) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + /* disallow bts if conflicting events are present */ if (x86_add_exclusive(x86_lbr_exclusive_lbr)) return -EBUSY; -- 2.7.4