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Mark Rutland 9d7f2619b0 perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()
commit da9ec3d3dd upstream.

Vince reports a worrying issue:

| so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns
| out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file
| descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.

... and further the cause:

| error is triggered if aux_sample_size has non-zero value.
|
| seems to be this line in kernel/events/core.c:
|
| if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
|                goto err_locked;
|
| (note, err is never set)

This seems to be a thinko in commit:

  ab43762ef0 ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")

... and we should probably return -EINVAL here, as this should only
happen when the new event is mis-configured or does not have a
compatible aux_event group leader.

Fixes: ab43762ef0 ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-01-23 08:22:33 +01:00
..
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
callchain.c perf/core: Convert to SPDX license identifiers 2019-02-04 08:46:11 +01:00
core.c perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() 2020-01-23 08:22:33 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix arch_hw_breakpoint use-before-initialization 2019-09-06 08:24:01 +02:00
internal.h perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting 2019-05-24 09:00:11 +02:00
ring_buffer.c perf/ring-buffer: Use regular variables for nesting 2019-05-24 09:00:11 +02:00
uprobes.c kernel/events/uprobes.c: only do FOLL_SPLIT_PMD for uprobe register 2019-10-19 06:32:33 -04:00