kaiser: fix intel_bts perf crashes
Vince reported perf_fuzzer quickly locks up on 4.15-rc7 with PTI; Robert reported Bad RIP with KPTI and Intel BTS also on 4.15-rc7: honggfuzz -f /tmp/somedirectorywithatleastonefile \ --linux_perf_bts_edge -s -- /bin/true (honggfuzz from https://github.com/google/honggfuzz) crashed with BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff9d3215100000 (then narrowed it down to perf record --per-thread -e intel_bts//u -- /bin/ls). The intel_bts driver does not use the 'normal' BTS buffer which is exposed through kaiser_add_mapping(), but instead uses the memory allocated for the perf AUX buffer. This obviously comes apart when using PTI, because then the kernel mapping, which includes that AUX buffer memory, disappears while switched to user page tables. Easily fixed in old-Kaiser backports, by applying kaiser_add_mapping() to those pages; perhaps not so easy for upstream, where 4.15-rc8 commit 99a9dc98 ("x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI") disables for now. Slightly reorganized surrounding code in bts_buffer_setup_aux(), so it can better match bts_buffer_free_aux(): free_aux with an #ifdef to avoid the loop when PTI is off, but setup_aux needs to loop anyway (and kaiser_add_mapping() is cheap when PTI config is off or "pti=off"). Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Reported-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net> Analyzed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Analyzed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suze.cz> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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