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[tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: Fix address filter parser

From tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin <tipbot@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: Fix address filter parser
Date 2016-11-21 11:40 +0100
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Commit-ID:  e96271f3ed7e702fa36dd0605c0c5b5f065af816
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e96271f3ed7e702fa36dd0605c0c5b5f065af816
Author:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 13:38:43 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:28:36 +0100

perf/core: Fix address filter parser

The token table passed into match_token() must be null-terminated, which
it currently is not in the perf's address filter string parser, as caught
by Vince's perf_fuzzer and KASAN.

It doesn't blow up otherwise because of the alignment padding of the table
to the next element in the .rodata, which is luck.

Fixing by adding a null-terminator to the token table.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Fixes: 375637bc524 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/877f81f264.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index ff230bb..6ee1feb 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8029,6 +8029,7 @@ restart:
  * if <size> is not specified, the range is treated as a single address.
  */
 enum {
+	IF_ACT_NONE = -1,
 	IF_ACT_FILTER,
 	IF_ACT_START,
 	IF_ACT_STOP,
@@ -8052,6 +8053,7 @@ static const match_table_t if_tokens = {
 	{ IF_SRC_KERNEL,	"%u/%u" },
 	{ IF_SRC_FILEADDR,	"%u@%s" },
 	{ IF_SRC_KERNELADDR,	"%u" },
+	{ IF_ACT_NONE,		NULL },
 };
 
 /*

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perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2016-11-17 21:30 +0100
  Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2016-11-17 21:40 +0100
    Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2016-11-17 23:20 +0100
      Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2016-11-18 04:00 +0100
        Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-18 09:30 +0100
        Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-18 12:50 +0100
          Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2016-11-18 19:10 +0100
          [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: Fix address filter parser tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-11-21 11:40 +0100
  Re: perf: fuzzer KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in match_token Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> - 2016-11-18 00:20 +0100

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