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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>2019-05-11 08:12:17 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-09 09:17:17 +0200
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powerpc/perf: Fix MMCRA corruption by bhrb_filter
commit 3202e35ec1c8fc19cea24253ff83edf702a60a02 upstream. Consider a scenario where user creates two events: 1st event: attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK; attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY; fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0); This sets cpuhw->bhrb_filter to 0 and returns valid fd. 2nd event: attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK; attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL; fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0); It overrides cpuhw->bhrb_filter to -1 and returns with error. Now if power_pmu_enable() gets called by any path other than power_pmu_add(), ppmu->config_bhrb(-1) will set MMCRA to -1. Fixes: 3925f46bb590 ("powerpc/perf: Enable branch stack sampling framework") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+ Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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