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STALE1772d REVIEWED: 2 (0M)

[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.13 20/24] perf/x86: Fix out of bound MSR access

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-08-10 14:16:37
Also in: linux-perf-users, lkml
Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit f4b4b45652578357031fbbef7f7a1b04f6fa2dc3 ]

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <redacted>
Tested-by: Like Xu <redacted>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YQJxka3dxgdIdebG@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/events/core.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/core.c b/arch/x86/events/core.c
index 1eb45139fcc6..3092fbf9dbe4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/core.c
@@ -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);
-- 
2.30.2
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