Commits
Mark Rutland committed 9d7f2619b02
perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()
commit da9ec3d3dd0f1240a48920be063448a2242dbd90 upstream.
Vince reports a worrying issue:
| so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns
| out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file
| descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.
... and further the cause:
| error is triggered if aux_sample_size has non-zero value.
|
| seems to be this line in kernel/events/core.c:
|
| if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
| goto err_locked;
|
| (note, err is never set)
This seems to be a thinko in commit:
ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
... and we should probably return -EINVAL here, as this should only
happen when the new event is mis-configured or does not have a
compatible aux_event group leader.
Fixes: ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>