472de49fdc
Vince reported a crash in the BTS flush code when touching the callchain
data, which was supposed to be initialized as an 'early' callchain,
but intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer() does not do that:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer+0x151/0x220
? intel_get_event_constraints+0x219/0x360
? perf_assign_events+0xe2/0x2a0
? select_idle_sibling+0x22/0x3a0
? __update_load_avg_se+0x1ec/0x270
? enqueue_task_fair+0x377/0xdd0
? cpumask_next_and+0x19/0x20
? load_balance+0x134/0x950
? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90
? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140
x86_pmu_stop+0x3b/0x90
x86_pmu_del+0x57/0x160
event_sched_out.isra.106+0x81/0x170
group_sched_out.part.108+0x51/0xc0
__perf_event_disable+0x7f/0x160
event_function+0x8c/0xd0
remote_function+0x3c/0x50
flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x35/0xe0
smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x3a/0xd0
call_function_single_interrupt+0xf/0x20
</IRQ>
It was triggered by fuzzer but can be easily reproduced by:
# perf record -e cpu/branch-instructions/pu -g -c 1
Peter suggested not to allow branch tracing for precise events:
> Now arguably, this is really stupid behaviour. Who in his right mind
> wants callchain output on BTS entries. And even if they do, BTS +
> precise_ip is nonsensical.
>
> So in my mind disallowing precise_ip on BTS would be the simplest fix.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 6cbc304f2f36 ("perf/x86/intel: Fix unwind errors from PEBS entries (mk-II)")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181121101612.16272-3-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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