Mathieu Poirier 7f635ff187 perf/core: Fix crash when using HW tracing kernel filters
In function perf_event_parse_addr_filter(), the path::dentry of each struct
perf_addr_filter is left unassigned (as it should be) when the pattern
being parsed is related to kernel space.  But in function
perf_addr_filter_match() the same dentries are given to d_inode() where
the value is not expected to be NULL, resulting in the following splat:

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000058
  pc : perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
  lr : perf_event_mmap+0x2c8/0x5a0
  Process uname (pid: 2860, stack limit = 0x000000001cbcca37)
  Call trace:
   perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
   mmap_region+0x124/0x570
   do_mmap+0x344/0x4f8
   vm_mmap_pgoff+0xe4/0x110
   vm_mmap+0x2c/0x40
   elf_map+0x60/0x108
   load_elf_binary+0x450/0x12c4
   search_binary_handler+0x90/0x290
   __do_execve_file.isra.13+0x6e4/0x858
   sys_execve+0x3c/0x50
   el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34

This patch is fixing the problem by introducing a new check in function
perf_addr_filter_match() to see if the filter's dentry is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: 9511bce9fe ("perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531782831-1186-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-25 11:46:22 +02:00
2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
2018-07-22 14:12:20 -07:00

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