[cip-dev] [PATCH 4.4-cip 06/23] perf/core: Fix Undefined behaviour in rb_alloc()
From: Ben Hutchings <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-09 00:34:57
Subsystem:
performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
commit 8184059e93c200757f5c0805dae0f14e880eab5d upstream.
Sasha reported:
[ 3494.030114] UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c:685:22
[ 3494.030647] shift exponent -1 is negative
Andrey spotted that this is because:
It happens if nr_pages = 0:
rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages);
Fix it by making both assignments conditional on nr_pages; since
otherwise they should both be 0 anyway, and will be because of the
kzalloc() used to allocate the structure.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <redacted>
Cc: David Ahern <redacted>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <redacted>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <redacted>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Vince Weaver <redacted>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160129141751.GA407 at worktop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
---
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 014b69528194..7beb02f40cb4 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c@@ -754,8 +754,10 @@ struct ring_buffer *rb_alloc(int nr_pages, long watermark, int cpu, int flags) rb->user_page = all_buf; rb->data_pages[0] = all_buf + PAGE_SIZE; - rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages); - rb->nr_pages = !!nr_pages; + if (nr_pages) { + rb->nr_pages = 1; + rb->page_order = ilog2(nr_pages); + } ring_buffer_init(rb, watermark, flags);
--
2.10.2
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.