hw_breakpoint: Add perf_event_attr fields check in __modify_user_hw_breakpoint()
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:45:45 +0000 (14:45 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 05:56:08 +0000 (06:56 +0100)
commit705feaf321c37e4dca3637fd5cb3b275f17a06c9
treea85a2b9fce79cfee9abd3794c719c4b75b701431
parent18ff57b220610a699947f20b156a8245ca7eee98
hw_breakpoint: Add perf_event_attr fields check in __modify_user_hw_breakpoint()

And rename it to modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check().

We are about to use modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() for user space
breakpoints modification, we must be very strict to check only the
fields we can change have changed. As Peter explained:

 "Suppose someone does:

        attr = malloc(sizeof(*attr)); // uninitialized memory
        attr->type = BP;
        attr->bp_addr = new_addr;
        attr->bp_type = bp_type;
        attr->bp_len = bp_len;
        ioctl(fd, PERF_IOC_MOD_ATTR, &attr);

  And feeds absolute shite for the rest of the fields.
  Then we later want to extend IOC_MOD_ATTR to allow changing
  attr::sample_type but we can't, because that would break the
  above application."

I'm making this check optional because we already export
modify_user_hw_breakpoint() and with this check we could
break existing users.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c