[PATCH v2 02/14] perf: Add persistent events

[Robert Richter]

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>

Add the needed pieces for persistent events which makes them
process-agnostic. Also, make their buffers read-only when mmaping them
from userspace.

While at it, do not return a void function, as caught by Fengguang's
build robot.

Changes made by Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxxxxx>:

* mmap should return EACCES error if fd can not be opened writable.
  This error code also helps userland to map buffers readonly on
  failure.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
[ Return -EACCES if mapped buffers must be readonly ]
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h |  3 ++-
 kernel/events/core.c            | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
index fb104e5..6032361 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -272,8 +272,9 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 
 				exclude_callchain_kernel : 1, /* exclude kernel callchains */
 				exclude_callchain_user   : 1, /* exclude user callchains */
+				persistent     :  1, /* always-on event */
 
-				__reserved_1   : 41;
+				__reserved_1   : 40;
 
 	union {
 		__u32		wakeup_events;	  /* wakeup every n events */
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index b790ab6..a13e457 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3713,6 +3713,11 @@ static void perf_mmap_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	struct perf_event *event = vma->vm_file->private_data;
 
+	if (event->attr.persistent) {
+		atomic_dec(&event->mmap_count);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(&event->mmap_count, &event->mmap_mutex)) {
 		unsigned long size = perf_data_size(event->rb);
 		struct user_struct *user = event->mmap_user;
@@ -3756,9 +3761,12 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	if (event->cpu == -1 && event->attr.inherit)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+	if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) && !event->attr.persistent)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	if (event->attr.persistent && (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	vma_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
 	nr_pages = (vma_size / PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
 
-- 
1.8.1.1

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