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authorKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>2021-03-12 05:21:38 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-03-25 09:04:16 +0100
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perf/x86/intel: Fix unchecked MSR access error caused by VLBR_EVENT
commit 2dc0572f2cef87425147658698dce2600b799bd3 upstream. On a Haswell machine, the perf_fuzzer managed to trigger this message: [117248.075892] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x3f1 (tried to write 0x0400000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff8106e4f4 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20) [117248.089957] Call Trace: [117248.092685] intel_pmu_pebs_enable_all+0x31/0x40 [117248.097737] intel_pmu_enable_all+0xa/0x10 [117248.102210] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x2df/0x2f0 [117248.107511] finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x15f/0x280 [117248.112765] schedule_tail+0xc/0x40 [117248.116562] ret_from_fork+0x8/0x30 A fake event called VLBR_EVENT may use the bit 58 of the PEBS_ENABLE, if the precise_ip is set. The bit 58 is reserved by the HW. Accessing the bit causes the unchecked MSR access error. The fake event doesn't support PEBS. The case should be rejected. Fixes: 097e4311cda9 ("perf/x86: Add constraint to create guest LBR event without hw counter") Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1615555298-140216-2-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/events/intel/core.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
index 4b05c876f9f6..e7dc13fe5e29 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
@@ -3562,6 +3562,9 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
return ret;
if (event->attr.precise_ip) {
+ if ((event->attr.config & INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) == INTEL_FIXED_VLBR_EVENT)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (!(event->attr.freq || (event->attr.wakeup_events && !event->attr.watermark))) {
event->hw.flags |= PERF_X86_EVENT_AUTO_RELOAD;
if (!(event->attr.sample_type &