arm64: perf: fix event validation for software group leaders

commit ee7538a008a45050c8f706d38b600f55953169f9 upstream.

This is a port of c95eb3184ea1 ("ARM: 7809/1: perf: fix event validation
for software group leaders") to arm64, which fixes a panic in the arm64
perf backend found as a result of Vince's fuzzing tool.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 2012646fb46f..12e6ccb88691 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events,
         struct hw_perf_event fake_event = event->hw;
         struct pmu *leader_pmu = event->group_leader->pmu;
 
+        if (is_software_event(event))
+                return 1;
+
         if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
                 return 1;