[tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Fix uninitialized value usage

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Commit-ID:  e01d8718de4170373cd7fbf5cf6f9cb61cebb1e9
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e01d8718de4170373cd7fbf5cf6f9cb61cebb1e9
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:24:29 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:35:23 +0100

perf/x86: Fix uninitialized value usage

When calling intel_alt_er() with .idx != EXTRA_REG_RSP_* we will not
initialize alt_idx and then use this uninitialized value to index an
array.

When that is not fatal, it can result in an infinite loop in its
caller __intel_shared_reg_get_constraints(), with IRQs disabled.

Alternative error modes are random memory corruption due to the
cpuc->shared_regs->regs[] array overrun, which manifest in either
get_constraints or put_constraints doing weird stuff.

Only took 6 hours of painful debugging to find this. Neither GCC nor
Smatch warnings flagged this bug.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: ae3f011fc251 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix SLM MSR_OFFCORE_RSP1 valid_mask")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index a667078..4264a08 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1960,7 +1960,8 @@ intel_bts_constraints(struct perf_event *event)
 
 static int intel_alt_er(int idx, u64 config)
 {
-	int alt_idx;
+	int alt_idx = idx;
+
 	if (!(x86_pmu.flags & PMU_FL_HAS_RSP_1))
 		return idx;
 
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