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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-06-11 15:03:16 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2021-06-24 08:49:03 +0200
commit7f049fbdd57f6ea71dc741d903c19c73b2f70950 (patch)
tree5b11e726fd368def34a736cfa73511ac95ded45e /arch
parent13311e74253fe64329390df80bed3f07314ddd61 (diff)
downloadlinux-7f049fbdd57f6ea71dc741d903c19c73b2f70950.tar.gz
perf/x86/intel/lbr: Zero the xstate buffer on allocation
XRSTORS requires a valid xstate buffer to work correctly. XSAVES does not
guarantee to write a fully valid buffer according to the SDM:

  "XSAVES does not write to any parts of the XSAVE header other than the
   XSTATE_BV and XCOMP_BV fields."

XRSTORS triggers a #GP:

  "If bytes 63:16 of the XSAVE header are not all zero."

It's dubious at best how this can work at all when the buffer is not zeroed
before use.

Allocate the buffers with __GFP_ZERO to prevent XRSTORS failure.

Fixes: ce711ea3cab9 ("perf/x86/intel/lbr: Support XSAVES/XRSTORS for LBR context switch")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnr0wo2z.ffs@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index 4409d2cccfda..e8453de7a964 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ void reserve_lbr_buffers(void)
 		if (!kmem_cache || cpuc->lbr_xsave)
 			continue;
 
-		cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL,
+		cpuc->lbr_xsave = kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache,
+							GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
 							cpu_to_node(cpu));
 	}
 }