perf: Correctly handle failed perf_get_aux_event()

Vince reports a worrying issue:

| so I was tracking down some odd behavior in the perf_fuzzer which turns
| out to be because perf_even_open() sometimes returns 0 (indicating a file
| descriptor of 0) even though as far as I can tell stdin is still open.

... and further the cause:

| error is triggered if aux_sample_size has non-zero value.
|
| seems to be this line in kernel/events/core.c:
|
| if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
|                goto err_locked;
|
| (note, err is never set)

This seems to be a thinko in commit:

  ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")

... and we should probably return -EINVAL here, as this should only
happen when the new event is mis-configured or does not have a
compatible aux_event group leader.

Fixes: ab43762ef010967e ("perf: Allow normal events to output AUX data")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index a1f8bde19b561a03ff09cd817d4013512d7f5383..2173c23c25b4fcef30b27059a1c799a697d217b1 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11465,8 +11465,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
                }
        }
 
-       if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader))
+       if (perf_need_aux_event(event) && !perf_get_aux_event(event, group_leader)) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
                goto err_locked;
+       }
 
        /*
         * Must be under the same ctx::mutex as perf_install_in_context(),