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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>2019-05-11 08:12:17 +0530
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2019-05-22 21:38:20 +1000
commit3202e35ec1c8fc19cea24253ff83edf702a60a02 (patch)
tree07a2f0939c84526a9bc367cccb2b958c7e8b8550 /arch/powerpc/perf/hv-24x7.h
parentb59bd3527fe3c1939340df558d7f9d568fc9f882 (diff)
powerpc/perf: Fix MMCRA corruption by bhrb_filter
Consider a scenario where user creates two events: 1st event: attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK; attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY; fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0); This sets cpuhw->bhrb_filter to 0 and returns valid fd. 2nd event: attr.sample_type |= PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK; attr.branch_sample_type = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL; fd = perf_event_open(attr, 0, 1, -1, 0); It overrides cpuhw->bhrb_filter to -1 and returns with error. Now if power_pmu_enable() gets called by any path other than power_pmu_add(), ppmu->config_bhrb(-1) will set MMCRA to -1. Fixes: 3925f46bb590 ("powerpc/perf: Enable branch stack sampling framework") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+ Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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