[PATCH 3.4 03/88] perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-06-10T00:49:32Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 0819b2e30ccb93edf04876237b6205eef84ec8d2 upstream.

Vince reported that using a large sample_period (one with bit 63 set)
results in wreckage since while the sample_period is fundamentally
unsigned (negative periods don't make sense) the way we implement
things very much rely on signed logic.

So limit sample_period to 63 bits to avoid tripping over this.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p25fhunibl4y3qi0zuqmyf4b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/events/core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6356,6 +6356,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
if (attr.freq) {
if (attr.sample_freq > sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate)
return -EINVAL;
+ } else {
+ if (attr.sample_period & (1ULL << 63))
+ return -EINVAL;
}

/*