linux/include/trace
Peter Zijlstra d5b5f391d4 ftrace, perf: Avoid infinite event generation loop
Vince's perf-trinity fuzzer found yet another 'interesting' problem.

When we sample the irq_work_exit tracepoint with period==1 (or
PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD) and we add an fasync SIGNAL handler we create an
infinite event generation loop:

  ,-> <IPI>
  |     irq_work_exit() ->
  |       trace_irq_work_exit() ->
  |         ...
  |           __perf_event_overflow() -> (due to fasync)
  |             irq_work_queue() -> (irq_work_list must be empty)
  '---------      arch_irq_work_raise()

Similar things can happen due to regular poll() wakeups if we exceed
the ring-buffer wakeup watermark, or have an event_limit.

To avoid this, dis-allow sampling this particular tracepoint.

In order to achieve this, create a special perf_perm function pointer
for each event and call this (when set) on trying to create a
tracepoint perf event.

[ roasted: use expr... to allow for ',' in your expression ]

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131114152304.GC5364@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-19 16:57:40 +01:00
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events The /dev/random changes for 3.13 including a number of improvements in 2013-11-16 10:19:15 -08:00
define_trace.h tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro 2013-06-20 22:24:32 -07:00
ftrace.h ftrace, perf: Avoid infinite event generation loop 2013-11-19 16:57:40 +01:00
syscall.h tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment 2013-07-01 20:34:25 -04:00