From 88b0193d9418c00340e45e0a913a0813bc6c8c96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 18:00:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking
perf_callchain_user()
Perf can generate and record a user callchain in response to a synchronous
request, such as a tracepoint firing. If this happens under set_fs(KERNEL_DS),
then we can end up walking the user stack (and dereferencing/saving whatever we
find there) without the protections usually afforded by checks such as
access_ok.
Rather than play whack-a-mole with each architecture's stack unwinding
implementation, fix the root of the problem by ensuring that we force USER_DS
when invoking perf_callchain_user from the perf core.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
kernel/events/callchain.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c
index c04917cad1bf..1b2be63c8528 100644
--- a/kernel/events/callchain.c
+++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c
@@ -229,12 +229,18 @@ get_perf_callchain(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 init_nr, bool kernel, bool user,
}
if (regs) {
+ mm_segment_t fs;
+
if (crosstask)
goto exit_put;
if (add_mark)
perf_callchain_store_context(&ctx, PERF_CONTEXT_USER);
+
+ fs = get_fs();
+ set_fs(USER_DS);
perf_callchain_user(&ctx, regs);
+ set_fs(fs);
}
}