ftrace, perf: Avoid infinite event generation loop

Vince's perf-trinity fuzzer found yet another 'interesting' problem.

When we sample the irq_work_exit tracepoint with period==1 (or
PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD) and we add an fasync SIGNAL handler we create an
infinite event generation loop:

  ,-> <IPI>
  |     irq_work_exit() ->
  |       trace_irq_work_exit() ->
  |         ...
  |           __perf_event_overflow() -> (due to fasync)
  |             irq_work_queue() -> (irq_work_list must be empty)
  '---------      arch_irq_work_raise()

Similar things can happen due to regular poll() wakeups if we exceed
the ring-buffer wakeup watermark, or have an event_limit.

To avoid this, dis-allow sampling this particular tracepoint.

In order to achieve this, create a special perf_perm function pointer
for each event and call this (when set) on trying to create a
tracepoint perf event.

[ roasted: use expr... to allow for ',' in your expression ]

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131114152304.GC5364@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h
index 52594b20179e..6b852f60f8ae 100644
--- a/include/trace/ftrace.h
+++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h
@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@
 #define TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS(name, value)                                  \
         __TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS(name, value)
 
+#undef TRACE_EVENT_PERF_PERM
+#define TRACE_EVENT_PERF_PERM(name, expr...)                            \
+        __TRACE_EVENT_PERF_PERM(name, expr)
+
 #include TRACE_INCLUDE(TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE)
 
 
@@ -140,6 +144,9 @@
 #undef TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS
 #define TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS(event, flag)
 
+#undef TRACE_EVENT_PERF_PERM
+#define TRACE_EVENT_PERF_PERM(event, expr...)
+
 #include TRACE_INCLUDE(TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE)
 
 /*