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…reakpoint()

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]>
Cc: Jin Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Milind Chabbi <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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olsajiri authored and Ingo Molnar committed Mar 13, 2018
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions kernel/events/hw_breakpoint.c
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Expand Up @@ -456,7 +456,9 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);

static int __modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *attr)
static int
modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *attr,
bool check)
{
u64 old_addr = bp->attr.bp_addr;
u64 old_len = bp->attr.bp_len;
Expand All @@ -468,6 +470,9 @@ static int __modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_
bp->attr.bp_type = attr->bp_type;
bp->attr.bp_len = attr->bp_len;

if (check && memcmp(&bp->attr, attr, sizeof(*attr)))
return -EINVAL;

err = validate_hw_breakpoint(bp);
if (!err && modify)
err = modify_bp_slot(bp, old_type);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -505,7 +510,7 @@ int modify_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event *bp, struct perf_event_attr *att
else
perf_event_disable(bp);

err = __modify_user_hw_breakpoint(bp, attr);
err = modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check(bp, attr, false);

if (err) {
if (!bp->attr.disabled)
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