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perf, x86: Robustify PEBS fixup
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It turns out the LBR is massively unreliable on certain CPUs, so code the
fixup a little more defensive to avoid crashing the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100305154129.042271287@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed Mar 10, 2010
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21 changes: 19 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
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Expand Up @@ -399,10 +399,23 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
if (!x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_trap)
return 1;

/*
* No LBR entry, no basic block, no rewinding
*/
if (!cpuc->lbr_stack.nr || !from || !to)
return 0;

if (ip < to)
/*
* Basic blocks should never cross user/kernel boundaries
*/
if (kernel_ip(ip) != kernel_ip(to))
return 0;

/*
* unsigned math, either ip is before the start (impossible) or
* the basic block is larger than 1 page (sanity)
*/
if ((ip - to) > PAGE_SIZE)
return 0;

/*
Expand All @@ -420,7 +433,7 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)

old_to = to;
if (!kernel_ip(ip)) {
int bytes, size = min_t(int, MAX_INSN_SIZE, ip - to);
int bytes, size = MAX_INSN_SIZE;

bytes = copy_from_user_nmi(buf, (void __user *)to, size);
if (bytes != size)
Expand All @@ -440,6 +453,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_pebs_fixup_ip(struct pt_regs *regs)
return 1;
}

/*
* Even though we decoded the basic block, the instruction stream
* never matched the given IP, either the TO or the IP got corrupted.
*/
return 0;
}

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