This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/core: Fix group {cpu,task} validation
to the 3.18-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-core-fix-group-cpu-task-validation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 64aee2a965cf2954a038b5522f11d2cd2f0f8f3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:41:38 +0100
Subject: perf/core: Fix group {cpu,task} validation
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
commit 64aee2a965cf2954a038b5522f11d2cd2f0f8f3e upstream.
Regardless of which events form a group, it does not make sense for the
events to target different tasks and/or CPUs, as this leaves the group
inconsistent and impossible to schedule. The core perf code assumes that
these are consistent across (successfully intialised) groups.
Core perf code only verifies this when moving SW events into a HW
context. Thus, we can violate this requirement for pure SW groups and
pure HW groups, unless the relevant PMU driver happens to perform this
verification itself. These mismatched groups subsequently wreak havoc
elsewhere.
For example, we handle watchpoints as SW events, and reserve watchpoint
HW on a per-CPU basis at pmu::event_init() time to ensure that any event
that is initialised is guaranteed to have a slot at pmu::add() time.
However, the core code only checks the group leader's cpu filter (via
event_filter_match()), and can thus install follower events onto CPUs
violating thier (mismatched) CPU filters, potentially installing them
into a CPU without sufficient reserved slots.
This can be triggered with the below test case, resulting in warnings
from arch backends.
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <unistd.h>
static int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *attr, pid_t pid, int cpu,
int group_fd, unsigned long flags)
{
return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, attr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags);
}
char watched_char;
struct perf_event_attr wp_attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT,
.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_RW,
.bp_addr = (unsigned long)&watched_char,
.bp_len = 1,
.size = sizeof(wp_attr),
};
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int leader, ret;
cpu_set_t cpus;
/*
* Force use of CPU0 to ensure our CPU0-bound events get scheduled.
*/
CPU_ZERO(&cpus);
CPU_SET(0, &cpus);
ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpus), &cpus);
if (ret) {
printf("Unable to set cpu affinity\n");
return 1;
}
/* open leader event, bound to this task, CPU0 only */
leader = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0);
if (leader < 0) {
printf("Couldn't open leader: %d\n", leader);
return 1;
}
/*
* Open a follower event that is bound to the same task, but a
* different CPU. This means that the group should never be possible to
* schedule.
*/
ret = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 1, leader, 0);
if (ret < 0) {
printf("Couldn't open mismatched follower: %d\n", ret);
return 1;
} else {
printf("Opened leader/follower with mismastched CPUs\n");
}
/*
* Open as many independent events as we can, all bound to the same
* task, CPU0 only.
*/
do {
ret = perf_event_open(&wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0);
} while (ret >= 0);
/*
* Force enable/disble all events to trigger the erronoeous
* installation of the follower event.
*/
printf("Opened all events. Toggling..\n");
for (;;) {
prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
}
return 0;
}
Fix this by validating this requirement regardless of whether we're
moving events.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498142498-15758-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7583,28 +7583,27 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
if (group_leader->group_leader != group_leader)
goto err_context;
/*
- * Do not allow to attach to a group in a different
- * task or CPU context:
+ * Make sure we're both events for the same CPU;
+ * grouping events for different CPUs is broken; since
+ * you can never concurrently schedule them anyhow.
*/
- if (move_group) {
- /*
- * Make sure we're both on the same task, or both
- * per-cpu events.
- */
- if (group_leader->ctx->task != ctx->task)
- goto err_context;
+ if (group_leader->cpu != event->cpu)
+ goto err_context;
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure we're both on the same task, or both
+ * per-CPU events.
+ */
+ if (group_leader->ctx->task != ctx->task)
+ goto err_context;
- /*
- * Make sure we're both events for the same CPU;
- * grouping events for different CPUs is broken; since
- * you can never concurrently schedule them anyhow.
- */
- if (group_leader->cpu != event->cpu)
- goto err_context;
- } else {
- if (group_leader->ctx != ctx)
- goto err_context;
- }
+ /*
+ * Do not allow to attach to a group in a different task
+ * or CPU context. If we're moving SW events, we'll fix
+ * this up later, so allow that.
+ */
+ if (!move_group && group_leader->ctx != ctx)
+ goto err_context;
/*
* Only a group leader can be exclusive or pinned
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mark.rutland@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/perf-core-fix-group-cpu-task-validation.patch