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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-10-18 13:56:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-10-19 10:09:42 +0200 |
| commit | 32671e3799ca2e4590773fd0e63aaa4229e50c06 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e0c436e51dafdf7a4ea71dcbf7e716ef203d8c5 /include | |
| parent | 58720809f52779dc0f08e53e54b014209d13eebb (diff) | |
perf: Disallow mis-matched inherited group reads
Because group consistency is non-atomic between parent (filedesc) and children
(inherited) events, it is possible for PERF_FORMAT_GROUP read() to try and sum
non-matching counter groups -- with non-sensical results.
Add group_generation to distinguish the case where a parent group removes and
adds an event and thus has the same number, but a different configuration of
events as inherited groups.
This became a problem when commit fa8c269353d5 ("perf/core: Invert
perf_read_group() loops") flipped the order of child_list and sibling_list.
Previously it would iterate the group (sibling_list) first, and for each
sibling traverse the child_list. In this order, only the group composition of
the parent is relevant. By flipping the order the group composition of the
child (inherited) events becomes an issue and the mis-match in group
composition becomes evident.
That said; even prior to this commit, while reading of a group that is not
equally inherited was not broken, it still made no sense.
(Ab)use ECHILD as error return to indicate issues with child process group
composition.
Fixes: fa8c269353d5 ("perf/core: Invert perf_read_group() loops")
Reported-by: Budimir Markovic <markovicbudimir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231018115654.GK33217@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index e85cd1c0eaf3..7b5406e3288d 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -704,6 +704,7 @@ struct perf_event { /* The cumulative AND of all event_caps for events in this group. */ int group_caps; + unsigned int group_generation; struct perf_event *group_leader; /* * event->pmu will always point to pmu in which this event belongs. |