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SubjectRe: [RFC] x86,perf: Implement minimal P4 PMU driver v14
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:38:00PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:31 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:24:22PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:15 +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > >
> > > > Perhaps something like the patch below (tested with kvm)? With this patch
> > > > we will actually waste ~4/8 bytes per PMU (intel,amd,p6) since this call
> > > > hits on p4 only, so I think perhaps better to use one x86 scheduler hook
> > > > instead of empty schedule_events() in PMU, hmm?
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > x86,perf: Fix NULL deref on not assigned x86_pmu
> > > >
> > > > In case of not assigned x86_pmu and software events
> > > > NULL dereference may being hit via x86_pmu::schedule_events
> > > > method.
> > > >
> > > > Fix it by calling x86_pmu::schedule_events only if we
> > > > have one. Otherwise use general scheduler.
> > > >
> > > > Also the former x86_schedule_events calls restored.
> > >
> > > Hrm,.. not sure that makes sense, sure it might not crash anymore, but
> > > its not making much sense to compute anything if we don't have an
> > > initialized x86_pmu.
> > >
> > > Doesn't adding something like:
> > >
> > > if (!x86_pmu_initialized())
> > > return;
> > >
> > > to hw_perf_group_sched_in() make more sense? We seem to do that for all
> > > these weak things except this one.
> > >
> >
> > As far as I see it'll not update tstamp_running then (in x86_event_sched_in).
> > Or I miss somethig?
>
> Have it return 0 and it will fallback to defaults. Since there is no
> initialized x86_pmu there's no point in doing anything x86 specific.
>

I suppose you mean something like below.

-- Cyrill
---
x86,perf: Fix NULL deref on not assigned x86_pmu

In case of not assigned x86_pmu and software events
NULL dereference may being hit via x86_pmu::schedule_events
method.

Fix it by checking if x86_pmu is initialized at all.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
=====================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1263,6 +1263,9 @@ int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_e
int assign[X86_PMC_IDX_MAX];
int n0, n1, ret;

+ if (!x86_pmu_initialized())
+ return 0;
+
/* n0 = total number of events */
n0 = collect_events(cpuc, leader, true);
if (n0 < 0)

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