[PATCH] perf/x86/intel: Fix unchecked PEBS_ENABLE MSR access error
From: kan . liang
Date: Fri Jun 20 2025 - 07:04:59 EST
From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
perf_fuzzzer reported an unchecked MSR access error.
[12646.001692] unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x3f1
(tried to write 0x0001000000000001) at
rIP: 0xffffffffa98932af (native_write_msr+0xf/0x20)
[12646.001698] Call Trace:
[12646.001700] <TASK>
[12646.001700] intel_pmu_pebs_enable_all+0x2c/0x40
[12646.001703] intel_pmu_enable_all+0xe/0x20
[12646.001705] ctx_resched+0x227/0x280
[12646.001708] event_function+0x8f/0xd0
Thank Vince very much for providing a small reproducible test case.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d12d4300-9926-5e58-6515-a53cb5c7bee0@xxxxxxxxx/
The error is because perf mistakenly creates a precise Topdown perf
metrics event, INTEL_TD_METRIC_RETIRING, which uses the idx 48
internally.
The Topdown perf metrics events never be a precise event (PEBS). Any
illegal creation should be filtered out by the intel_pmu_hw_config.
However, the is_available_metric_event() failed to detect the Topdown
perf metrics event. The filter is not applied.
To detect an event, the pure event encoding should be used, rather than
the whole event->attr.config. Only check the pure event encoding in
is_available_metric_event.
Fixes: 1ab5f235c176 ("perf/x86/intel: Filter unsupported Topdown metrics event")
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/14d3167e-4dad-f68e-822f-21cd86eab873@xxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
index 8f2e36ad89db..bf5ca4cb232b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c
@@ -4082,7 +4082,7 @@ static int core_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
static bool is_available_metric_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
return is_metric_event(event) &&
- event->attr.config <= INTEL_TD_METRIC_AVAILABLE_MAX;
+ (event->attr.config & INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) <= INTEL_TD_METRIC_AVAILABLE_MAX;
}
static inline bool is_mem_loads_event(struct perf_event *event)
--
2.38.1