tjh.dev/kernel at v6.9-rc4

On x86 each struct cpu_hw_events maintains a table for counter assignment but
it missed to update one for the deleted event in x86_pmu_del(). This
can make perf_clear_dirty_counters() reset used counter if it's called
before event scheduling or enabling. Then it would return out of range
data which doesn't make sense.

The following code can reproduce the problem.

$ cat repro.c
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>

struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
.disabled = 1,
};

void *worker(void *arg)
{
int cpu = (long)arg;
int fd1 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
int fd2 = syscall(SYS_perf_event_open, &attr, -1, cpu, -1, 0);
void *p;

do {
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);
p = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd1, 0);
ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0);

ioctl(fd2, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
munmap(p, 4096);
ioctl(fd1, PERF_EVENT_IOC_DISABLE, 0);
} while (1);

return NULL;
}

int main(void)
{
int i;
int n = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
pthread_t *th = calloc(n, sizeof(*th));

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_create(&th[i], NULL, worker, (void *)(long)i);
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
pthread_join(th[i], NULL);

free(th);
return 0;
}

And you can see the out of range data using perf stat like this.
Probably it'd be easier to see on a large machine.

$ gcc -o repro repro.c -pthread
$ ./repro &
$ sudo perf stat -A -I 1000 2>&1 | awk '{ if (length($3) > 15) print }'
1.001028462 CPU6 196,719,295,683,763 cycles # 194290.996 GHz (71.54%)
1.001028462 CPU3 396,077,485,787,730 branch-misses # 15804359784.80% of all branches (71.07%)
1.001028462 CPU17 197,608,350,727,877 branch-misses # 14594186554.56% of all branches (71.22%)
2.020064073 CPU4 198,372,472,612,140 cycles # 194681.113 GHz (70.95%)
2.020064073 CPU6 199,419,277,896,696 cycles # 195720.007 GHz (70.57%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,147,174,025,639 cycles # 194474.654 GHz (71.03%)
2.020064073 CPU20 198,421,240,580,145 stalled-cycles-frontend # 100.14% frontend cycles idle (70.93%)
3.037443155 CPU4 197,382,689,923,416 cycles # 194043.065 GHz (71.30%)
3.037443155 CPU20 196,324,797,879,414 cycles # 193003.773 GHz (71.69%)
3.037443155 CPU5 197,679,956,608,205 stalled-cycles-backend # 1315606428.66% backend cycles idle (71.19%)
3.037443155 CPU5 198,571,860,474,851 instructions # 13215422.58 insn per cycle

It should move the contents in the cpuc->assign as well.

Fixes: 5471eea5d3bf ("perf/x86: Reset the dirty counter to prevent the leak for an RDPMC task")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240306061003.1894224-1-namhyung@kernel.org

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Namhyung Kim

2 years ago

selftests: timers: Fix abs() warning in posix_timers test

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John Stultz

2 years ago

x86/cpu/amd: Make the CPUID 0x80000008 parser correct

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Thomas Gleixner

2 years ago

Merge tag 'timers-urgent-2024-04-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

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Linus Torvalds

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