On Wed, 7 Aug 2013, Stephen Boyd wrote: > Is config some really big value? It looks like config (or more > specifically event->attr.config) is ecececec which is larger than 9 > (PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX). I'm fairly certain r4 is event->attr.type > (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE) and so we're out of bounds on that array access in > armpmu_map_hw_event(). Does the below patch fix that? Yes, it was big values in attr.config. I managed to bisect down to a simple test case, which is attached. Oddly the test case has two events before the oops happens; I should double check to make sure both are really necessary. I'll try this patch and see if it fixes things, thanks. Vince
/* log_to_code output from ./new_oops.bisect15 */ /* by Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver _at_ maine.edu */ #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <string.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> int fd[1024]; struct perf_event_attr pe[1024]; char *mmap_result[1024]; #define MAX_READ_SIZE 65536 static long long data[MAX_READ_SIZE]; int forked_pid; int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr, pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) { return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open,hw_event_uptr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { /* 1 */ memset(&pe[0],0,sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)); pe[0].type=PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE; pe[0].config=0x2cc61006; pe[0].sample_type=0; /* 0 */ pe[0].read_format=PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_RUNNING|PERF_FORMAT_GROUP; /* b */ pe[0].disabled=1; pe[0].exclusive=1; pe[0].exclude_idle=1; pe[0].comm=1; pe[0].inherit_stat=1; pe[0].enable_on_exec=1; pe[0].precise_ip=0; /* arbitrary skid */ pe[0].mmap_data=1; pe[0].sample_id_all=1; pe[0].exclude_host=1; pe[0].exclude_guest=1; pe[0].wakeup_events=2147483647; pe[0].bp_type=HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY; pe[0].branch_sample_type=2147483648ULL; fd[0]=perf_event_open(&pe[0],0,0,-1,PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP /*1*/ ); /* 2 */ memset(&pe[1],0,sizeof(struct perf_event_attr)); pe[1].type=PERF_TYPE_RAW; pe[1].size=80; pe[1].config=0xb6c8ad99; pe[1].sample_type=0; /* 0 */ pe[1].read_format=PERF_FORMAT_TOTAL_TIME_ENABLED|PERF_FORMAT_ID|0x80000010ULL; /* 80000015 */ pe[1].inherit=1; pe[1].exclude_user=1; pe[1].exclude_hv=1; pe[1].mmap=1; pe[1].inherit_stat=1; pe[1].task=1; pe[1].precise_ip=3; /* must have zero skid */ pe[1].sample_id_all=1; pe[1].exclude_guest=1; pe[1].wakeup_events=0; pe[1].bp_type=HW_BREAKPOINT_EMPTY; fd[1]=perf_event_open(&pe[1],0,0,-1,PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP /*1*/ ); /* Replayed 2 syscalls */ return 0; }