This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/x86: Fix out of range data
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-x86-fix-out-of-range-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From dec8ced871e17eea46f097542dd074d022be4bd1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:10:03 -0800
Subject: perf/x86: Fix out of range data
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit dec8ced871e17eea46f097542dd074d022be4bd1 upstream.
On x86 each struct cpu_hw_events maintains a table for counter assignment but
it missed to update one for the deleted event in x86_pmu_del(). This
can make perf_clear_dirty_counters() reset used counter if it's called
before event scheduling or enabling. Then it would return out of range
data which doesn't make sense.
The following code can reproduce the problem.
$ cat repro.c
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
.disabled = 1,
};
void *worker(void *arg)
{
int cpu = (long)arg;
int fd1 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
int fd2 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
void *p;
do {
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd1, 0);
ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
munmap(p, 4096);
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
} while (1);
return NULL;
}
int main(void)
{
int i;
int n = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
pthread_t *th = calloc(n, sizeof(*th));
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_create(&th[i], NULL, worker, (void *)(long)i);
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_join(th[i], NULL);
free(th);
return 0;
}
And you can see the out of range data using perf stat like this.
Probably it'd be easier to see on a large machine.
$ gcc -o repro repro.c -pthread
$ ./repro &
$ sudo perf stat -A -I 1000 2>&1 | awk '{ if (length($3) > 15) print }'
1.001028462 CPU6 196,719,295,683,763 cycles # 194290.996 GHz (71.54%)
1.001028462 CPU3 396,077,485,787,730 branch-misses # 15804359784.80% of all branches (71.07%)
1.001028462 CPU17 197,608,350,727,877 branch-misses # 14594186554.56% of all branches (71.22%)
2.020064073 CPU4 198,372,472,612,140 cycles # 194681.113 GHz (70.95%)
2.020064073 CPU6 199,419,277,896,696 cycles # 195720.007 GHz (70.57%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,147,174,025,639 cycles # 194474.654 GHz (71.03%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,421,240,580,145 stalled-cycles-frontend # 100.14% frontend cycles idle (70.93%)
3.037443155 CPU4 197,382,689,923,416 cycles # 194043.065 GHz (71.30%)
3.037443155 CPU20 196,324,797,879,414 cycles # 193003.773 GHz (71.69%)
3.037443155 CPU5 197,679,956,608,205 stalled-cycles-backend # 1315606428.66% backend cycles idle (71.19%)
3.037443155 CPU5 198,571,860,474,851 instructions # 13215422.58 insn per cycle
It should move the contents in the cpuc->assign as well.
Fixes: 5471eea5d3bf ("perf/x86: Reset the dirty counter to prevent the leak for an RDPMC task")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306061003.1894224-1-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -1644,6 +1644,7 @@ static void x86_pmu_del(struct perf_even
while (++i < cpuc->n_events) {
cpuc->event_list[i-1] = cpuc->event_list[i];
cpuc->event_constraint[i-1] = cpuc->event_constraint[i];
+ cpuc->assign[i-1] = cpuc->assign[i];
}
cpuc->event_constraint[i-1] = NULL;
--cpuc->n_events;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/perf-x86-fix-out-of-range-data.patch
