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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>2019-06-04 09:59:53 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-01-27 14:50:57 +0100
commit574fe4c9a31490bbe53dfa3281ed269039ecc087 (patch)
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perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value
[ Upstream commit 913a90bc5a3a06b1f04c337320e9aeee2328dd77 ] perf_event_open() limits the sample_period to 63 bits. See: 0819b2e30ccb ("perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits") Make ioctl() consistent with it. Also on PowerPC, negative sample_period could cause a recursive PMIs leading to a hang (reported when running perf-fuzzer). Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Fixes: 0819b2e30ccb ("perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604042953.914-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 751888cbed5c..16af86ab24c4 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5012,6 +5012,9 @@ static int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 __user *arg)
if (perf_event_check_period(event, value))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (!event->attr.freq && (value & (1ULL << 63)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
event_function_call(event, __perf_event_period, &value);
return 0;