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perf/core: Fix crash when using HW tracing kernel filters
In function perf_event_parse_addr_filter(), the path::dentry of each struct
perf_addr_filter is left unassigned (as it should be) when the pattern
being parsed is related to kernel space. But in function
perf_addr_filter_match() the same dentries are given to d_inode() where
the value is not expected to be NULL, resulting in the following splat:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000058
pc : perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
lr : perf_event_mmap+0x2c8/0x5a0
Process uname (pid: 2860, stack limit = 0x000000001cbcca37)
Call trace:
perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
mmap_region+0x124/0x570
do_mmap+0x344/0x4f8
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xe4/0x110
vm_mmap+0x2c/0x40
elf_map+0x60/0x108
load_elf_binary+0x450/0x12c4
search_binary_handler+0x90/0x290
__do_execve_file.isra.13+0x6e4/0x858
sys_execve+0x3c/0x50
el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34
This patch is fixing the problem by introducing a new check in function
perf_addr_filter_match() to see if the filter's dentry is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 9511bce ("perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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