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perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:27:45 +0000 (14:27 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 2 May 2019 20:41:36 +0000 (21:41 +0100)
commit25690127bc4845c60a266681d59c64fbdca7d115
treeea5e738d81c23324876a455b5a00ac82a4172f72
parentd8c1eaef1983b772e79beac75a5c00244a7e368e
perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes

commit 9dff0aa95a324e262ffb03f425d00e4751f3294e upstream.

The perf tool uses /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb to determine how
large its ringbuffer mmap should be. This can be configured to arbitrary
values, which can be larger than the maximum possible allocation from
kmalloc.

When this is configured to a suitably large value (e.g. thanks to the
perf fuzzer), attempting to use perf record triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() in
__alloc_pages_nodemask():

   WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 5666 at mm/page_alloc.c:4511 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3f8/0xbc8

Let's avoid this by checking that the requested allocation is possible
before calling kzalloc.

Reported-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
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: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110142745.25495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c