ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders
It is possible to construct an event group with a software event as a
group leader and then subsequently add a hardware event to the group.
This results in the event group being validated by adding all members
of the group to a fake PMU and attempting to allocate each event on
their respective PMU.
Unfortunately, for software events wthout a corresponding arm_pmu, this
results in a kernel crash attempting to dereference the ->get_event_idx
function pointer.
This patch fixes the problem by checking explicitly for software events
and ignoring those in event validation (since they can always be
scheduled). We will probably want to revisit this for 3.12, since the
validation checks don't appear to work correctly when dealing with
multiple hardware PMUs anyway.
Change-Id: Ic1722ba7463c9836f1ff595d7e8da1d0fc0e32b0
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Git-commit: c95eb3184ea1a3a2551df57190c81da695e2144b
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
[joonwoop@codeaurora.org: fixed merge conflict]
CRs-fixed: 529735
Signed-off-by: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
index 8fb93d0..aed4443 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -338,6 +338,9 @@
struct hw_perf_event fake_event = event->hw;
struct pmu *leader_pmu = event->group_leader->pmu;
+ if (is_software_event(event))
+ return 1;
+
if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
return 1;