linux-stable.git/kernel/events/core.c, branch linux-5.4.y

perf/core: Prevent VMA split of buffer mappings

2025-08-28T14:21:23+00:00

commit b024d7b56c77191cde544f838debb7f8451cd0d6 upstream.

The perf mmap code is careful about mmap()'ing the user page with the
ringbuffer and additionally the auxiliary buffer, when the event supports
it. Once the first mapping is established, subsequent mapping have to use
the same offset and the same size in both cases. The reference counting for
the ringbuffer and the auxiliary buffer depends on this being correct.

Though perf does not prevent that a related mapping is split via mmap(2),
munmap(2) or mremap(2). A split of a VMA results in perf_mmap_open() calls,
which take reference counts, but then the subsequent perf_mmap_close()
calls are not longer fulfilling the offset and size checks. This leads to
reference count leaks.

As perf already has the requirement for subsequent mappings to match the
initial mapping, the obvious consequence is that VMA splits, caused by
resizing of a mapping or partial unmapping, have to be prevented.

Implement the vm_operations_struct::may_split() callback and return
unconditionally -EINVAL.

That ensures that the mapping offsets and sizes cannot be changed after the
fact. Remapping to a different fixed address with the same size is still
possible as it takes the references for the new mapping and drops those of
the old mapping.

Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf/core: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams")
Reported-by: zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com # ZDI-CAN-27504
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/core: Exit early on perf_mmap() fail

2025-08-28T14:21:23+00:00

commit 07091aade394f690e7b655578140ef84d0e8d7b0 upstream.

When perf_mmap() fails to allocate a buffer, it still invokes the
event_mapped() callback of the related event. On X86 this might increase
the perf_rdpmc_allowed reference counter. But nothing undoes this as
perf_mmap_close() is never called in this case, which causes another
reference count leak.

Return early on failure to prevent that.

Fixes: 1e0fb9ec679c ("perf/core: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/core: Don't leak AUX buffer refcount on allocation failure

2025-08-28T14:21:22+00:00

commit 5468c0fbccbb9d156522c50832244a8b722374fb upstream.

Failure of the AUX buffer allocation leaks the reference count.

Set the reference count to 1 only when the allocation succeeds.

Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf/core: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix sample vs do_exit()

2025-06-27T10:02:58+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4f6fc782128355931527cefe3eb45338abd8ab39 ]

Baisheng Gao reported an ARM64 crash, which Mark decoded as being a
synchronous external abort -- most likely due to trying to access
MMIO in bad ways.

The crash further shows perf trying to do a user stack sample while in
exit_mmap()'s tlb_finish_mmu() -- i.e. while tearing down the address
space it is trying to access.

It turns out that we stop perf after we tear down the userspace mm; a
receipie for disaster, since perf likes to access userspace for
various reasons.

Flip this order by moving up where we stop perf in do_exit().

Additionally, harden PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN and PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER
to abort when the current task does not have an mm (exit_mm() makes
sure to set current->mm = NULL; before commencing with the actual
teardown). Such that CPU wide events don't trip on this same problem.

Fixes: c5ebcedb566e ("perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sample")
Reported-by: Baisheng Gao 
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250605110815.GQ39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Fix broken throttling when max_samples_per_tick=1

2025-06-27T10:02:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit f51972e6f8b9a737b2b3eb588069acb538fa72de ]

According to the throttling mechanism, the pmu interrupts number can not
exceed the max_samples_per_tick in one tick. But this mechanism is
ineffective when max_samples_per_tick=1, because the throttling check is
skipped during the first interrupt and only performed when the second
interrupt arrives.

Perhaps this bug may cause little influence in one tick, but if in a
larger time scale, the problem can not be underestimated.

When max_samples_per_tick = 1:
Allowed-interrupts-per-second max-samples-per-second  default-HZ  ARCH
200                           100                     100         X86
500                           250                     250         ARM64
...
Obviously, the pmu interrupt number far exceed the user's expect.

Fixes: e050e3f0a71b ("perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling")
Signed-off-by: Qing Wang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250405141635.243786-3-wangqing7171@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Fix low freq setting via IOC_PERIOD

2025-03-13T11:43:25+00:00

commit 0d39844150546fa1415127c5fbae26db64070dd3 upstream.

A low attr::freq value cannot be set via IOC_PERIOD on some platforms.

The perf_event_check_period() introduced in:

  81ec3f3c4c4d ("perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback")

was intended to check the period, rather than the frequency.
A low frequency may be mistakenly rejected by limit_period().

Fix it.

Fixes: 81ec3f3c4c4d ("perf/x86: Add check_period PMU callback")
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117151913.3043942-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250115154949.3147-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf/core: Fix small negative period being ignored

2024-11-08T15:20:40+00:00

commit 62c0b1061593d7012292f781f11145b2d46f43ab upstream.

In perf_adjust_period, we will first calculate period, and then use
this period to calculate delta. However, when delta is less than 0,
there will be a deviation compared to when delta is greater than or
equal to 0. For example, when delta is in the range of [-14,-1], the
range of delta = delta + 7 is between [-7,6], so the final value of
delta/8 is 0. Therefore, the impact of -1 and -2 will be ignored.
This is unacceptable when the target period is very short, because
we will lose a lot of samples.

Here are some tests and analyzes:
before:
  # perf record -e cs -F 1000  ./a.out
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.022 MB perf.data (518 samples) ]

  # perf script
  ...
  a.out     396   257.956048:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.957891:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.959730:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.961545:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.963355:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.965163:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.966973:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.968785:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     396   257.970593:         23 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  ...

after:
  # perf record -e cs -F 1000  ./a.out
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.058 MB perf.data (1466 samples) ]

  # perf script
  ...
  a.out     395    59.338813:         11 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.339707:         12 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.340682:         13 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.341751:         13 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.342799:         12 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.343765:         11 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.344651:         11 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.345539:         12 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  a.out     395    59.346502:         13 cs:  ffffffff81f4eeec schedul>
  ...

test.c

int main() {
        for (int i = 0; i < 20000; i++)
                usleep(10);

        return 0;
}

  # time ./a.out
  real    0m1.583s
  user    0m0.040s
  sys     0m0.298s

The above results were tested on x86-64 qemu with KVM enabled using
test.c as test program. Ideally, we should have around 1500 samples,
but the previous algorithm had only about 500, whereas the modified
algorithm now has about 1400. Further more, the new version shows 1
sample per 0.001s, while the previous one is 1 sample per 0.002s.This
indicates that the new algorithm is more sensitive to small negative
values compared to old algorithm.

Fixes: bd2b5b12849a ("perf_counter: More aggressive frequency adjustment")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter 
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240831074316.2106159-2-luogengkun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Prevent passing zero nr_pages to rb_alloc_aux()

2024-08-19T03:33:29+00:00

[ Upstream commit dbc48c8f41c208082cfa95e973560134489e3309 ]

nr_pages is unsigned long but gets passed to rb_alloc_aux() as an int,
and is stored as an int.

Only power-of-2 values are accepted, so if nr_pages is a 64_bit value, it
will be passed to rb_alloc_aux() as zero.

That is not ideal because:
 1. the value is incorrect
 2. rb_alloc_aux() is at risk of misbehaving, although it manages to
 return -ENOMEM in that case, it is a result of passing zero to get_order()
 even though the get_order() result is documented to be undefined in that
 case.

Fix by simply validating the maximum supported value in the first place.
Use -ENOMEM error code for consistency with the current error code that
is returned in that case.

Fixes: 45bfb2e50471 ("perf: Add AUX area to ring buffer for raw data streams")
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624201101.60186-6-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Fix missing wakeup when waiting for context reference

2024-07-05T07:08:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 74751ef5c1912ebd3e65c3b65f45587e05ce5d36 ]

In our production environment, we found many hung tasks which are
blocked for more than 18 hours. Their call traces are like this:

[346278.191038] __schedule+0x2d8/0x890
[346278.191046] schedule+0x4e/0xb0
[346278.191049] perf_event_free_task+0x220/0x270
[346278.191056] ? init_wait_var_entry+0x50/0x50
[346278.191060] copy_process+0x663/0x18d0
[346278.191068] kernel_clone+0x9d/0x3d0
[346278.191072] __do_sys_clone+0x5d/0x80
[346278.191076] __x64_sys_clone+0x25/0x30
[346278.191079] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xc0
[346278.191083] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x27/0x50
[346278.191086] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0xc0
[346278.191088] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x9/0x20
[346278.191092] ? irqentry_exit+0x19/0x30
[346278.191095] ? exc_page_fault+0x89/0x160
[346278.191097] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
[346278.191102] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

The task was waiting for the refcount become to 1, but from the vmcore,
we found the refcount has already been 1. It seems that the task didn't
get woken up by perf_event_release_kernel() and got stuck forever. The
below scenario may cause the problem.

Thread A					Thread B
...						...
perf_event_free_task				perf_event_release_kernel
						   ...
						   acquire event->child_mutex
						   ...
						   get_ctx
   ...						   release event->child_mutex
   acquire ctx->mutex
   ...
   perf_free_event (acquire/release event->child_mutex)
   ...
   release ctx->mutex
   wait_var_event
						   acquire ctx->mutex
						   acquire event->child_mutex
						   # move existing events to free_list
						   release event->child_mutex
						   release ctx->mutex
						   put_ctx
...						...

In this case, all events of the ctx have been freed, so we couldn't
find the ctx in free_list and Thread A will miss the wakeup. It's thus
necessary to add a wakeup after dropping the reference.

Fixes: 1cf8dfe8a661 ("perf/core: Fix race between close() and fork()")
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240513103948.33570-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/core: Fix reentry problem in perf_output_read_group()

2024-04-13T10:51:30+00:00

commit 6b959ba22d34ca793ffdb15b5715457c78e38b1a upstream.

perf_output_read_group may respond to IPI request of other cores and invoke
__perf_install_in_context function. As a result, hwc configuration is modified.
causing inconsistency and unexpected consequences.

Interrupts are not disabled when perf_output_read_group reads PMU counter.
In this case, IPI request may be received from other cores.
As a result, PMU configuration is modified and an error occurs when
reading PMU counter:

		     CPU0                                         CPU1
						      __se_sys_perf_event_open
							perf_install_in_context
  perf_output_read_group                                  smp_call_function_single
    for_each_sibling_event(sub, leader) {                   generic_exec_single
      if ((sub != event) &&                                   remote_function
	  (sub->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE))                    |
     <----RAISE IPI-----+
  __perf_install_in_context
    ctx_resched
      event_sched_out
	armpmu_del
	  ...
	  hwc->idx = -1; // event->hwc.idx is set to -1
  ...
  
	      sub->pmu->read(sub);
		armpmu_read
		  armv8pmu_read_counter
		    armv8pmu_read_hw_counter
		      int idx = event->hw.idx; // idx = -1
		      u64 val = armv8pmu_read_evcntr(idx);
			u32 counter = ARMV8_IDX_TO_COUNTER(idx); // invalid counter = 30
			read_pmevcntrn(counter) // undefined instruction

Signed-off-by: Yang Jihong 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220902082918.179248-1-yangjihong1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman