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Commit dafe22c4 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Ed Tam
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ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders


It is possible to construct an event group with a software event as a
group leader and then subsequently add a hardware event to the group.
This results in the event group being validated by adding all members
of the group to a fake PMU and attempting to allocate each event on
their respective PMU.

Unfortunately, for software events wthout a corresponding arm_pmu, this
results in a kernel crash attempting to dereference the ->get_event_idx
function pointer.

This patch fixes the problem by checking explicitly for software events
and ignoring those in event validation (since they can always be
scheduled). We will probably want to revisit this for 3.12, since the
validation checks don't appear to work correctly when dealing with
multiple hardware PMUs anyway.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c

Signed-off-by: default avatarPatrick Tjin <pattjin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEd Tam <etam@google.com>
parent 5e8779be
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