This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/perf: Fix oops when grouping different pmu events to the 4.9-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: powerpc-perf-fix-oops-when-grouping-different-pmu-events.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:48:40 CET 2018 From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:03:22 +0530 Subject: powerpc/perf: Fix oops when grouping different pmu events From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5aa04b3eb6fca63d2e9827be656dcadc26d54e11 ] When user tries to group imc (In-Memory Collections) event with normal event, (sometime) kernel crashes with following log: Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000 [link register ] c00000000010ce88 power_check_constraints+0x128/0x980 ... c00000000010e238 power_pmu_event_init+0x268/0x6f0 c0000000002dc60c perf_try_init_event+0xdc/0x1a0 c0000000002dce88 perf_event_alloc+0x7b8/0xac0 c0000000002e92e0 SyS_perf_event_open+0x530/0xda0 c00000000000b004 system_call+0x38/0xe0 'event_base' field of 'struct hw_perf_event' is used as flags for normal hw events and used as memory address for imc events. While grouping these two types of events, collect_events() tries to interpret imc 'event_base' as a flag, which causes a corruption resulting in a crash. Consider only those events which belongs to 'perf_hw_context' in collect_events(). Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-By: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c @@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@ static int collect_events(struct perf_ev int n = 0; struct perf_event *event; - if (!is_software_event(group)) { + if (group->pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_hw_context) { if (n >= max_count) return -1; ctrs[n] = group; @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ static int collect_events(struct perf_ev events[n++] = group->hw.config; } list_for_each_entry(event, &group->sibling_list, group_entry) { - if (!is_software_event(event) && + if (event->pmu->task_ctx_nr == perf_hw_context && event->state != PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) { if (n >= max_count) return -1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/perf-top-fix-window-dimensions-change-handling.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-perf-fix-oops-when-grouping-different-pmu-events.patch