[PATCH 3.19 155/175] perf tools: Fix probing for PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-04T06:30:42Z

From: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

commit 48536c9195ae8c2a00fd8f400bac72ab613feaab upstream.

Commit f6edb53c4993ffe92ce521fb449d1c146cea6ec2 converted the probe to
a CPU wide event first (pid == -1). For kernels that do not support
the PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag the probe fails with EINVAL. Since this
errno is not handled pid is not reset to 0 and the subsequent use of
pid = -1 as an argument brings in an additional failure path if
perf_event_paranoid > 0:

$ perf record -- sleep 1
perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error 13 (Permission denied)
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.007 MB /tmp/perf.data (11 samples) ]

Also, ensure the fd of the confirmation check is closed and comment why
pid = -1 is used.

Needs to go to 3.18 stable tree as well.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Based-on-patch-by: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54EC610C.8000403@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
tools/perf/util/cloexec.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/cloexec.c
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ static int perf_flag_probe(void)
if (cpu < 0)
cpu = 0;

+ /*
+ * Using -1 for the pid is a workaround to avoid gratuitous jump label
+ * changes.
+ */
while (1) {
/* check cloexec flag */
fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, pid, cpu, -1,
@@ -47,16 +51,24 @@ static int perf_flag_probe(void)
err, strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf)));

/* not supported, confirm error related to PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC */
- fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, pid, cpu, -1, 0);
+ while (1) {
+ fd = sys_perf_event_open(&attr, pid, cpu, -1, 0);
+ if (fd < 0 && pid == -1 && errno == EACCES) {
+ pid = 0;
+ continue;
+ }
+ break;
+ }
err = errno;

+ if (fd >= 0)
+ close(fd);
+
if (WARN_ONCE(fd < 0 && err != EBUSY,
"perf_event_open(..., 0) failed unexpectedly with error %d (%s)\n",
err, strerror_r(err, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf))))
return -1;

- close(fd);
-
return 0;
}