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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2020-01-06 12:03:39 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-23 08:22:33 +0100
commit9d7f2619b02327b1c9f7b574603a993e9a07be66 (patch)
treefbf50a05c35848c94efd9cf4bd7e6bb5693c7baa /kernel/events
parenta0edabb91e6e4ca1674a6dd7a8bff9e6cc63cdf5 (diff)
perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()
commit da9ec3d3dd0f1240a48920be063448a2242dbd90 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: ab43762ef010967e ("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: ab43762ef010967e ("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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 8f66a4833ded..6c829e22bad3 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11182,8 +11182,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}
}
- if (event->attr.aux_output && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
+ if (event->attr.aux_output && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
goto err_locked;
+ }
/*
* Must be under the same ctx::mutex as perf_install_in_context(),