Commit 460d3798 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ben Hutchings

perf: Limit perf_event_attr::sample_period to 63 bits

commit 0819b2e3 upstream.

Vince reported that using a large sample_period (one with bit 63 set)
results in wreckage since while the sample_period is fundamentally
unsigned (negative periods don't make sense) the way we implement
things very much rely on signed logic.

So limit sample_period to 63 bits to avoid tripping over this.
Reported-by: default avatarVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p25fhunibl4y3qi0zuqmyf4b@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 512c19f9
......@@ -6301,6 +6301,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
if (attr.freq) {
if (attr.sample_freq > sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate)
return -EINVAL;
} else {
if (attr.sample_period & (1ULL << 63))
return -EINVAL;
}
/*
......
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