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perf/core: Bail out early if the request AUX area is out of bound
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When perf-record with a large AUX area, e.g 4GB, it fails with:

    #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
    failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

and it reveals a WARNING with __alloc_pages():

	------------[ cut here ]------------
	WARNING: CPU: 44 PID: 17573 at mm/page_alloc.c:5568 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
	Call trace:
	 __alloc_pages+0x1ec/0x248
	 __kmalloc_large_node+0xc0/0x1f8
	 __kmalloc_node+0x134/0x1e8
	 rb_alloc_aux+0xe0/0x298
	 perf_mmap+0x440/0x660
	 mmap_region+0x308/0x8a8
	 do_mmap+0x3c0/0x528
	 vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf4/0x1b8
	 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x18c/0x218
	 __arm64_sys_mmap+0x38/0x58
	 invoke_syscall+0x50/0x128
	 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x188
	 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x50
	 el0_svc+0x34/0x108
	 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xb8/0xc0
	 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

'rb->aux_pages' allocated by kcalloc() is a pointer array which is used to
maintains AUX trace pages. The allocated page for this array is physically
contiguous (and virtually contiguous) with an order of 0..MAX_ORDER. If the
size of pointer array crosses the limitation set by MAX_ORDER, it reveals a
WARNING.

So bail out early with -ENOMEM if the request AUX area is out of bound,
e.g.:

    #perf record -C 0 -m ,4G -e arm_spe_0// -- sleep 1
    failed to mmap with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)

Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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axiqia authored and gregkh committed Nov 28, 2023
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
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Expand Up @@ -699,6 +699,12 @@ int rb_alloc_aux(struct perf_buffer *rb, struct perf_event *event,
watermark = 0;
}

/*
* kcalloc_node() is unable to allocate buffer if the size is larger
* than: PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER; directly bail out in this case.
*/
if (get_order((unsigned long)nr_pages * sizeof(void *)) > MAX_ORDER)
return -ENOMEM;
rb->aux_pages = kcalloc_node(nr_pages, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL,
node);
if (!rb->aux_pages)
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