linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] perf fixes

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Date:	Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:25:53 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: b3f207855f57b9c8f43a547a801340bb5cbc59e5 perf: Handle compat ioctl

A kprobes and a perf compat ioctl fix.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Masami Hiramatsu (1):
      kprobes: Skip kretprobe hit in NMI context to avoid deadlock

Pawel Moll (1):
      perf: Handle compat ioctl


 kernel/events/core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 kernel/kprobes.c     | 13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1cf24b3e42ec..f9c1ed002dbc 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <linux/cgroup.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
+#include <linux/compat.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -3717,6 +3718,26 @@ static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+static long perf_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+				unsigned long arg)
+{
+	switch (_IOC_NR(cmd)) {
+	case _IOC_NR(PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER):
+	case _IOC_NR(PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID):
+		/* Fix up pointer size (usually 4 -> 8 in 32-on-64-bit case */
+		if (_IOC_SIZE(cmd) == sizeof(compat_uptr_t)) {
+			cmd &= ~IOCSIZE_MASK;
+			cmd |= sizeof(void *) << IOCSIZE_SHIFT;
+		}
+		break;
+	}
+	return perf_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
+}
+#else
+# define perf_compat_ioctl NULL
+#endif
+
 int perf_event_task_enable(void)
 {
 	struct perf_event *event;
@@ -4222,7 +4243,7 @@ static const struct file_operations perf_fops = {
 	.read			= perf_read,
 	.poll			= perf_poll,
 	.unlocked_ioctl		= perf_ioctl,
-	.compat_ioctl		= perf_ioctl,
+	.compat_ioctl		= perf_compat_ioctl,
 	.mmap			= perf_mmap,
 	.fasync			= perf_fasync,
 };
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index 734e9a7d280b..3995f546d0f3 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1778,7 +1778,18 @@ static int pre_handler_kretprobe(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	unsigned long hash, flags = 0;
 	struct kretprobe_instance *ri;
 
-	/*TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
+	/*
+	 * To avoid deadlocks, prohibit return probing in NMI contexts,
+	 * just skip the probe and increase the (inexact) 'nmissed'
+	 * statistical counter, so that the user is informed that
+	 * something happened:
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(in_nmi())) {
+		rp->nmissed++;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	/* TODO: consider to only swap the RA after the last pre_handler fired */
 	hash = hash_ptr(current, KPROBE_HASH_BITS);
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->lock, flags);
 	if (!hlist_empty(&rp->free_instances)) {
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