perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value
authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:29:53 +0000 (09:59 +0530)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:19:22 +0000 (19:19 +0200)
commit913a90bc5a3a06b1f04c337320e9aeee2328dd77
treeaf92be728178a24245a32132c16e5ecb7963c558
parent085ebfe937d7a7a5df1729f35a12d6d655fea68c
perf/ioctl: Add check for the sample_period value

perf_event_open() limits the sample_period to 63 bits. See:

  0819b2e30ccb ("perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits")

Make ioctl() consistent with it.

Also on PowerPC, negative sample_period could cause a recursive
PMIs leading to a hang (reported when running perf-fuzzer).

Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Fixes: 0819b2e30ccb ("perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604042953.914-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c