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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)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 4 Feb 2019 07:45:25 +0000 (08:45 +0100)
commit9dff0aa95a324e262ffb03f425d00e4751f3294e
treec0c16af8ed756d461878a35c964f4dc0f1447423
parent602cae04c4864bb3487dfe4c2126c8d9e7e1614a
perf/core: Don't WARN() for impossible ring-buffer sizes

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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190110142745.25495-1-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/ring_buffer.c