From da9ec3d3dd0f1240a48920be063448a2242dbd90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Rutland Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:03:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event() Vince reports a worrying issue: | so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns | out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file | descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open. ... and further the cause: | error is triggered if aux_sample_size has non-zero value. | | seems to be this line in kernel/events/core.c: | | if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) | goto err_locked; | | (note, err is never set) This seems to be a thinko in commit: ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data") ... and we should probably return -EINVAL here, as this should only happen when the new event is mis-configured or does not have a compatible aux_event group leader. Fixes: ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data") Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin Tested-by: Vince Weaver --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index a1f8bde19b56..2173c23c25b4 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -11465,8 +11465,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, } } - if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) + if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) { + err = -EINVAL; goto err_locked; + } /* * Must be under the same ctx::mutex as perf_install_in_context(),