[PATCH 5.10 021/101] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Zero the xstate buffer on allocation

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 10:34:49 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 7f049fbdd57f6ea71dc741d903c19c73b2f70950 ]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87wnr0wo2z.ffs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
index 6c1231837382..29ec4fe48507 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c
@@ -730,7 +730,8 @@ 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));
}
}
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2.30.2