From 3863989497652488a50f00e96de4331e5efabc6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Kobryn Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 11:57:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/lbr: Filter vsyscall addresses commit e53899771a02f798d436655efbd9d4b46c0f9265 upstream. We found that a panic can occur when a vsyscall is made while LBR sampling is active. If the vsyscall is interrupted (NMI) for perf sampling, this call sequence can occur (most recent at top): __insn_get_emulate_prefix() insn_get_emulate_prefix() insn_get_prefixes() insn_get_opcode() decode_branch_type() get_branch_type() intel_pmu_lbr_filter() intel_pmu_handle_irq() perf_event_nmi_handler() Within __insn_get_emulate_prefix() at frame 0, a macro is called: peek_nbyte_next(insn_byte_t, insn, i) Within this macro, this dereference occurs: (insn)->next_byte Inspecting registers at this point, the value of the next_byte field is the address of the vsyscall made, for example the location of the vsyscall version of gettimeofday() at 0xffffffffff600000. The access to an address in the vsyscall region will trigger an oops due to an unhandled page fault. To fix the bug, filtering for vsyscalls can be done when determining the branch type. This patch will return a "none" branch if a kernel address if found to lie in the vsyscall region. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/events/utils.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/events/utils.c b/arch/x86/events/utils.c index 76b1f8bb0fd5f..dab4ed199227f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/utils.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/utils.c @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 #include +#include #include "perf_event.h" @@ -132,9 +133,9 @@ static int get_branch_type(unsigned long from, unsigned long to, int abort, * The LBR logs any address in the IP, even if the IP just * faulted. This means userspace can control the from address. * Ensure we don't blindly read any address by validating it is - * a known text address. + * a known text address and not a vsyscall address. */ - if (kernel_text_address(from)) { + if (kernel_text_address(from) && !in_gate_area_no_mm(from)) { addr = (void *)from; /* * Assume we can get the maximum possible size -- 2.39.5