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Athira Rajeev 72cd652b73 perf affinity: Fix out of bound access to "sched_cpus" mask
The affinity code in "affinity_set" function access array named
"sched_cpus". The size for this array is allocated in affinity_setup
function which is nothing but value from get_cpu_set_size. This is used
to contain the cpumask value for each cpu.

While setting bit for each cpu, it calls "set_bit" function which access
index in sched_cpus array.  If we provide a command-line option to -C
which is more than the number of CPU's present in the system, the
set_bit could access an array member which is out-of the array size.
This is because currently, there is no boundary check for the CPU.  This
will result in seg fault:

<<>>
   ./perf stat -C 12323431 ls
  Perf can support 2048 CPUs. Consider raising MAX_NR_CPUS
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
<<>>

Fix this by adding boundary check for the array.

After the fix from powerpc system:

<<>>
  ./perf stat -C 12323431 ls 1>out
  Perf can support 2048 CPUs. Consider raising MAX_NR_CPUS

   Performance counter stats for 'CPU(s) 12323431':

     <not supported> msec cpu-clock
     <not supported>      context-switches
     <not supported>      cpu-migrations
     <not supported>      page-faults
     <not supported>      cycles
     <not supported>      instructions
     <not supported>      branches
     <not supported>      branch-misses

         0.001192373 seconds time elapsed
<<>>

Reported-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Athira Jajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry <rnsastry@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220905141929.7171-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2022-09-06 09:45:23 -03:00
Documentation A handful of fixes for documentation and the docs build system. 2022-08-29 09:49:48 -07:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.