On systems without any specific PMU driver support registered, running
perf record causes Oops.
The relevant portion from call trace:
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000040
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0021f0c
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K PREEMPT CMPCPRO
SAF3000 DIE NOTIFICATION
CPU: 0 PID: 442 Comm: null_syscall Not tainted 5.13.0-rc6-s3k-dev-01645-g7649ee3d2957 #5164
NIP: c0021f0c LR: c00e8ad8 CTR: c00d8a5c
NIP perf_instruction_pointer+0x10/0x60
LR perf_prepare_sample+0x344/0x674
Call Trace:
perf_prepare_sample+0x7c/0x674 (unreliable)
perf_event_output_forward+0x3c/0x94
__perf_event_overflow+0x74/0x14c
perf_swevent_hrtimer+0xf8/0x170
__hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x160/0x318
hrtimer_interrupt+0x148/0x3b0
timer_interrupt+0xc4/0x22c
Decrementer_virt+0xb8/0xbc
During perf record session, perf_instruction_pointer() is called to
capture the sample IP. This function in core-book3s accesses
ppmu->flags. If a platform specific PMU driver is not registered, ppmu
is set to NULL and accessing its members results in a crash. Fix this
crash by checking if ppmu is set.
Fixes: 2ca13a4cc5 ("powerpc/perf: Use regs->nip when SIAR is zero")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1623952506-1431-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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