[PATCH 5.4 037/222] perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-01-22T13:20:14Z

From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

commit da9ec3d3dd0f1240a48920be063448a2242dbd90 upstream.

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 <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11182,8 +11182,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}
}

- if (event->attr.aux_output && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
+ if (event->attr.aux_output && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
goto err_locked;
+ }

/*
* Must be under the same ctx::mutex as perf_install_in_context(),