This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/core: Fix crash when using HW tracing kernel filters
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-core-fix-crash-when-using-hw-tracing-kernel-filters.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Tue Nov 17 12:22:26 PM CET 2020
From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:13:51 -0600
Subject: perf/core: Fix crash when using HW tracing kernel filters
From: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7f635ff187ab6be0b350b3ec06791e376af238ab upstream
In function perf_event_parse_addr_filter(), the path::dentry of each struct
perf_addr_filter is left unassigned (as it should be) when the pattern
being parsed is related to kernel space. But in function
perf_addr_filter_match() the same dentries are given to d_inode() where
the value is not expected to be NULL, resulting in the following splat:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000058
pc : perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
lr : perf_event_mmap+0x2c8/0x5a0
Process uname (pid: 2860, stack limit = 0x000000001cbcca37)
Call trace:
perf_event_mmap+0x2fc/0x5a0
mmap_region+0x124/0x570
do_mmap+0x344/0x4f8
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xe4/0x110
vm_mmap+0x2c/0x40
elf_map+0x60/0x108
load_elf_binary+0x450/0x12c4
search_binary_handler+0x90/0x290
__do_execve_file.isra.13+0x6e4/0x858
sys_execve+0x3c/0x50
el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34
This patch is fixing the problem by introducing a new check in function
perf_addr_filter_match() to see if the filter's dentry is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: acme@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: miklos@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: songliubraving@xxxxxx
Fixes: 9511bce9fe8e ("perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1531782831-1186-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -6814,6 +6814,10 @@ static bool perf_addr_filter_match(struc
struct file *file, unsigned long offset,
unsigned long size)
{
+ /* d_inode(NULL) won't be equal to any mapped user-space file */
+ if (!filter->path.dentry)
+ return false;
+
if (d_inode(filter->path.dentry) != file_inode(file))
return false;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-core-fix-crash-when-using-hw-tracing-kernel-filters.patch
