From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 085ebfe937d7a7a5df1729f35a12d6d655fea68c ] perf_sample_regs_user() uses 'current->mm' to test for the presence of userspace, but this is insufficient, consider use_mm(). A better test is: '!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)', exec() clears PF_KTHREAD after it sets the new ->mm but before it drops to userspace for the first time. Possibly obsoletes: bf05fc25f268 ("powerpc/perf: Fix oops when kthread execs user process") Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Young Xiao <92siuyang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4018994f3d87 ("perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index dc7dead2d2cc..f33bd0a89391 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -5913,7 +5913,7 @@ static void perf_sample_regs_user(struct perf_regs *regs_user, if (user_mode(regs)) { regs_user->abi = perf_reg_abi(current); regs_user->regs = regs; - } else if (current->mm) { + } else if (!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) { perf_get_regs_user(regs_user, regs, regs_user_copy); } else { regs_user->abi = PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_ABI_NONE; -- 2.20.1