Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] perf: Add perf_event_attr::config3

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On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 10:28 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Peter, it looks like this series is blocked on the below now; what would you
> prefer out of:
>
> (a) Take this as is, and look add adding additional validation on top.
>
> (b) Add some flag to indicate a PMU driver supports config3, and have the core
>     code check that, but leave the existing fields as-is for now (and hopefully
>     follow up with further validation later for the existing fields).

That looks something like this:

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 853f64b6c8c2..845162b152ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ struct perf_event;
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE                        0x0080
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_OUTPUT                        0x0100
 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE          0x0200
+#define PERF_PMU_CAP_CONFIG3                   0x0400

 struct perf_output_handle;

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index aefc1e08e015..4414ae64432a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11314,6 +11314,9 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu
*pmu, struct perf_event *event)
                    event_has_any_exclude_flag(event))
                        ret = -EINVAL;

+               if (!(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_CONFIG3) &&
event->attr.config3)
+                       ret = -EINVAL;
+
                if (ret && event->destroy)
                        event->destroy(event);
        }
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