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<title>perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:29:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
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commit 81ec3f3c4c4d78f2d3b6689c9816bfbdf7417dbb upstream.

Vince (and later on Ravi) reported crashes in the BTS code during
fuzzing with the following backtrace:

  general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
  ...
  RIP: 0010:perf_prepare_sample+0x8f/0x510
  ...
  Call Trace:
   &lt;IRQ&gt;
   ? intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x194/0x230
   intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x160/0x230
   ? tick_nohz_irq_exit+0x31/0x40
   ? smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x48/0xe0
   ? call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
   ? call_function_single_interrupt+0xa/0x20
   ? x86_schedule_events+0x1a0/0x2f0
   ? x86_pmu_commit_txn+0xb4/0x100
   ? find_busiest_group+0x47/0x5d0
   ? perf_event_set_state.part.42+0x12/0x50
   ? perf_mux_hrtimer_restart+0x40/0xb0
   intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
   ? intel_pmu_disable_event+0xae/0x100
   x86_pmu_stop+0x7a/0xb0
   x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x120
   event_sched_out.isra.101+0x83/0x180
   group_sched_out.part.103+0x57/0xe0
   ctx_sched_out+0x188/0x240
   ctx_resched+0xa8/0xd0
   __perf_event_enable+0x193/0x1e0
   event_function+0x8e/0xc0
   remote_function+0x41/0x50
   flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x68/0x100
   generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x13/0x30
   smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3e/0xe0
   call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
   &lt;/IRQ&gt;

The reason is that while event init code does several checks
for BTS events and prevents several unwanted config bits for
BTS event (like precise_ip), the PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD allows
to create BTS event without those checks being done.

Following sequence will cause the crash:

If we create an 'almost' BTS event with precise_ip and callchains,
and it into a BTS event it will crash the perf_prepare_sample()
function because precise_ip events are expected to come
in with callchain data initialized, but that's not the
case for intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() caller.

Adding a check_period callback to be called before the period
is changed via PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD. It will deny the change
if the event would become BTS. Plus adding also the limit_period
check as well.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204123532.GA4794@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix impossible ring-buffer sizes warning</title>
<updated>2019-02-20T09:29:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-13T06:57:02Z</published>
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commit 528871b456026e6127d95b1b2bd8e3a003dc1614 upstream.

The following commit:

  9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes")

results in perf recording failures with larger mmap areas:

  root@skl:/tmp# perf record -g -a
  failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

The root cause is that the following condition is buggy:

	if (order_base_2(size) &gt;= MAX_ORDER)
		goto fail;

The problem is that @size is in bytes and MAX_ORDER is in pages,
so the right test is:

	if (order_base_2(size) &gt;= PAGE_SHIFT+MAX_ORDER)
		goto fail;

Fix it.

Reported-by: "Jin, Yao" &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Bisected-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Analyzed-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 9dff0aa95a32 ("perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes</title>
<updated>2019-02-12T19:02:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-10T14:27:45Z</published>
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commit 9dff0aa95a324e262ffb03f425d00e4751f3294e upstream.

The perf tool uses /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb to determine how
large its ringbuffer mmap should be. This can be configured to arbitrary
values, which can be larger than the maximum possible allocation from
kmalloc.

When this is configured to a suitably large value (e.g. thanks to the
perf fuzzer), attempting to use perf record triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() in
__alloc_pages_nodemask():

   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 5666 at mm/page_alloc.c:4511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3f8/0xbc8

Let's avoid this by checking that the requested allocation is possible
before calling kzalloc.

Reported-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110142745.25495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.20-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T18:35:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-06T18:35:19Z</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "This is a single commit that fixes a bug in uprobes SDT code due to a
  missing mutex protection"

* tag 'trace-v4.20-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe_remove()
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<entry>
<title>Uprobes: Fix kernel oops with delayed_uprobe_remove()</title>
<updated>2018-12-06T04:05:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravi Bangoria</name>
<email>ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-05T03:34:23Z</published>
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There could be a race between task exit and probe unregister:

  exit_mm()
  mmput()
  __mmput()                     uprobe_unregister()
  uprobe_clear_state()          put_uprobe()
  delayed_uprobe_remove()       delayed_uprobe_remove()

put_uprobe() is calling delayed_uprobe_remove() without taking
delayed_uprobe_lock and thus the race sometimes results in a
kernel crash. Fix this by taking delayed_uprobe_lock before
calling delayed_uprobe_remove() from put_uprobe().

Detailed crash log can be found at:
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000140c370577db5ece@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181205033423.26242-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+cb1fb754b771caca0a88@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 1cc33161a83d ("uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)")
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs. unregister() + register() race once more</title>
<updated>2018-11-23T07:31:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Parri</name>
<email>andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-22T16:10:31Z</published>
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Commit:

  142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")

added the UPROBE_COPY_INSN flag, and corresponding smp_wmb() and smp_rmb()
memory barriers, to ensure that handle_swbp() uses fully-initialized
uprobes only.

However, the smp_rmb() is mis-placed: this barrier should be placed
after handle_swbp() has tested for the flag, thus guaranteeing that
(program-order) subsequent loads from the uprobe can see the initial
stores performed by prepare_uprobe().

Move the smp_rmb() accordingly.  Also amend the comments associated
to the two memory barriers to indicate their actual locations.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri &lt;andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 142b18ddc8143 ("uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() race")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181122161031.15179-1-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-11-04T01:13:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-04T01:13:43Z</published>
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Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are almost all tooling updates: 'perf top', 'perf trace' and
  'perf script' fixes and updates, an UAPI header sync with the merge
  window versions, license marker updates, much improved Sparc support
  from David Miller, and a number of fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (66 commits)
  perf intel-pt/bts: Calculate cpumode for synthesized samples
  perf intel-pt: Insert callchain context into synthesized callchains
  perf tools: Don't clone maps from parent when synthesizing forks
  perf top: Start display thread earlier
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/if_link.h header copy
  tools headers uapi: Update linux/netlink.h header copy
  tools headers: Sync the various kvm.h header copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/mmap.h copy
  perf trace beauty: Use the mmap flags table generated from headers
  perf beauty: Wire up the mmap flags table generator to the Makefile
  perf beauty: Add a generator for MAP_ mmap's flag constants
  tools include uapi: Update asound.h copy
  tools arch uapi: Update asm-generic/unistd.h and arm64 unistd.h copies
  tools include uapi: Update linux/fs.h copy
  perf callchain: Honour the ordering of PERF_CONTEXT_{USER,KERNEL,etc}
  perf cs-etm: Correct CPU mode for samples
  perf unwind: Take pgoff into account when reporting elf to libdwfl
  perf top: Do not use overwrite mode by default
  perf top: Allow disabling the overwrite mode
  perf trace: Beautify mount's first pathname arg
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-10-30T16:49:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-30T16:49:56Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes

  Back in January I posted patches to create function based events.
  These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to
  easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After
  posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement
  this instead with kprobes.

  The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and
  needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and
  I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in
  the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches,
  and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface.

   - If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
     kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
     to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to
     know what register or where on the stack the argument was).

   - The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you
     reference a mac address, you can add:

	echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' &gt; kprobe_events

     And this will produce:

	mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}

  Other changes include

   - Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules

   - Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
     tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).

   - Added support for SDT in uprobes"

[ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing.
  Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly
  well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ]

* tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack
  tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules
  tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args
  tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol
  tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly
  tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed
  tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
  x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
  tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
  tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
  tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
  tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
  tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
  tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
  trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe
  perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Clean up inconsisent indentation</title>
<updated>2018-10-30T08:51:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-29T23:32:11Z</published>
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Replace a bunch of spaces with tab, cleans up indentation

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181029233211.21475-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-10-24T10:22:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-24T10:22:39Z</published>
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Pull siginfo updates from Eric Biederman:
 "I have been slowly sorting out siginfo and this is the culmination of
  that work.

  The primary result is in several ways the signal infrastructure has
  been made less error prone. The code has been updated so that manually
  specifying SEND_SIG_FORCED is never necessary. The conversion to the
  new siginfo sending functions is now complete, which makes it
  difficult to send a signal without filling in the proper siginfo
  fields.

  At the tail end of the patchset comes the optimization of decreasing
  the size of struct siginfo in the kernel from 128 bytes to about 48
  bytes on 64bit. The fundamental observation that enables this is by
  definition none of the known ways to use struct siginfo uses the extra
  bytes.

  This comes at the cost of a small user space observable difference.
  For the rare case of siginfo being injected into the kernel only what
  can be copied into kernel_siginfo is delivered to the destination, the
  rest of the bytes are set to 0. For cases where the signal and the
  si_code are known this is safe, because we know those bytes are not
  used. For cases where the signal and si_code combination is unknown
  the bits that won't fit into struct kernel_siginfo are tested to
  verify they are zero, and the send fails if they are not.

  I made an extensive search through userspace code and I could not find
  anything that would break because of the above change. If it turns out
  I did break something it will take just the revert of a single change
  to restore kernel_siginfo to the same size as userspace siginfo.

  Testing did reveal dependencies on preferring the signo passed to
  sigqueueinfo over si-&gt;signo, so bit the bullet and added the
  complexity necessary to handle that case.

  Testing also revealed bad things can happen if a negative signal
  number is passed into the system calls. Something no sane application
  will do but something a malicious program or a fuzzer might do. So I
  have fixed the code that performs the bounds checks to ensure negative
  signal numbers are handled"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (80 commits)
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Guard against negative signal numbers in copy_siginfo_from_user
  signal: In sigqueueinfo prefer sig not si_signo
  signal: Use a smaller struct siginfo in the kernel
  signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo
  signal: Introduce copy_siginfo_from_user and use it's return value
  signal: Remove the need for __ARCH_SI_PREABLE_SIZE and SI_PAD_SIZE
  signal: Fail sigqueueinfo if si_signo != sig
  signal/sparc: Move EMT_TAGOVF into the generic siginfo.h
  signal/unicore32: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/unicore32: Generate siginfo in ucs32_notify_die
  signal/unicore32: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arc: Push siginfo generation into unhandled_exception
  signal/ia64: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/ia64: Use the force_sig(SIGSEGV,...) in ia64_rt_sigreturn
  signal/ia64: Use the generic force_sigsegv in setup_frame
  signal/arm/kvm: Use send_sig_mceerr
  signal/arm: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate
  signal/arm: Use force_sig_fault where appropriate
  ...
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