[PATCH] perf core: apply calculated padding to PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output

[Timo Beckers]

Zero the amount of padding bytes determined in perf_prepare_sample().
This prevents garbage being read from the ring buffer after it has wrapped
the page boundary at least once.

Signed-off-by: Timo Beckers <t...@incline.eu>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 80cf996a7f19..d4e0b003ece0 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6807,8 +6807,16 @@ void perf_output_sample(struct perf_output_handle 
*handle,
                                        break;
                                frag = frag->next;
                        } while (1);
-                       if (frag->pad)
-                               __output_skip(handle, NULL, frag->pad);
+                       /*
+                        * The padding value is determined in
+                        * perf_prepare_sample() and is not
+                        * expected to exceed u64.
+                        */
+                       if (frag->pad) {
+                               u64 zero = 0;
+
+                               __output_copy(handle, &zero, frag->pad);
+                       }
                } else {
                        struct {
                                u32     size;
-- 
2.26.2