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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Explicitly define PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES as undefined.
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427080345.GB16991@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461719993-12461-1-git-send-email-kilobyte@angband.pl>


* Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:

> filter_events() relies on the value of 0 to remove events that are not
> applicable, like this one.
> 
> UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:132:30
> index 9 is out of range for type 'u64 [9]'
> UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in arch/x86/events/amd/core.c:132:9
> load of address ffffffff81c021c8 with insufficient space
> for an object of type 'const u64'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/amd/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
> index 86a9bec..5fa1b8e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/core.c
> @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static const u64 amd_perfmon_event_map[] =
>    [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES]			= 0x00c3,
>    [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_FRONTEND]	= 0x00d0, /* "Decoder empty" event */
>    [PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES_BACKEND]	= 0x00d1, /* "Dispatch stalls" event */
> +  [PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES]		=      0,
>  };

Hm, I think it would be cleaner and more robust to change this (and all other 
similar, if any) arrays to [PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] instead.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27  1:19 [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Explicitly define PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES as undefined Adam Borowski
2016-04-27  8:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-04-27  9:32   ` Adam Borowski
2016-04-27  9:35     ` [PATCH] perf/x86/amd: Set the size of event map array to PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX Adam Borowski
2016-04-28  8:24       ` [tip:perf/urgent] " tip-bot for Adam Borowski

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