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perf/x86: Fix out of bound MSR access
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:49:43PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> [32694.087403] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x318 (tried to write 0x0000000000000000) at rIP: 0xffffffff8106f854 (native_write_msr+0x4/0x20)
> [32694.101374] Call Trace:
> [32694.103974]  perf_clear_dirty_counters+0x86/0x100

The problem being that it doesn't filter out all fake counters, in
specific the above (erroneously) tries to use FIXED_BTS. Limit the
fixed counters indexes to the hardware supplied number.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Like Xu <likexu@tencent.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YQJxka3dxgdIdebG@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Sasha Levin committed Aug 26, 2021
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12 changes: 7 additions & 5 deletions arch/x86/events/core.c
Expand Up @@ -2489,13 +2489,15 @@ void perf_clear_dirty_counters(void)
return;

for_each_set_bit(i, cpuc->dirty, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX) {
/* Metrics and fake events don't have corresponding HW counters. */
if (is_metric_idx(i) || (i == INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_VLBR))
continue;
else if (i >= INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED)
if (i >= INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED) {
/* Metrics and fake events don't have corresponding HW counters. */
if ((i - INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED) >= hybrid(cpuc->pmu, num_counters_fixed))
continue;

wrmsrl(MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR0 + (i - INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED), 0);
else
} else {
wrmsrl(x86_pmu_event_addr(i), 0);
}
}

bitmap_zero(cpuc->dirty, X86_PMC_IDX_MAX);
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