Re: [PATCH 01/10] perf,x86: Fix event/group validation

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 05/21/2015 07:17 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> @@ -2106,7 +2106,7 @@ static struct event_constraint *
>  intel_get_event_constraints(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int idx,
>  			    struct perf_event *event)
>  {
> -	struct event_constraint *c1 = event->hw.constraint;
> +	struct event_constraint *c1 = cpuc->event_constraint[idx];
>  	struct event_constraint *c2;

Hey Peter,

I was chasing a memory corruption in this area and I think I found
a possible culprit:

After this patch, In the code above, we'd access "cpuc->event_constraint[idx]"
and read/change memory.

The problem is that a valid value for idx is also -1, which isn't checked
here, so we end up accessing and possibly corrupting memory that isn't ours.


Thanks,
Sasha