kernel/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

powerpc, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain

2026-03-19T15:15:09Z

[ Upstream commit e9bbfb4bfa86c6b5515b868d6982ac60505d7e39 ] It may happen that mm is already released, which leads to kernel panic. This adds the NULL check for current->mm, similarly to commit 20afc60f892d ("x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain"). I was getting this panic when running a profiling BPF program (profile.py from bcc-tools): [26215.051935] Kernel attempted to read user page (588) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0) [26215.051950] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000588 [26215.051952] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000020fac0 [26215.051957] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] [...] [26215.052049] Call Trace: [26215.052050] [c000000061da6d30] [c00000000020fc10] perf_callchain_user_64+0x2d0/0x490 (unreliable) [26215.052054] [c000000061da6dc0] [c00000000020f92c] perf_callchain_user+0x1c/0x30 [26215.052057] [c000000061da6de0] [c0000000005ab2a0] get_perf_callchain+0x100/0x360 [26215.052063] [c000000061da6e70] [c000000000573bc8] bpf_get_stackid+0x88/0xf0 [26215.052067] [c000000061da6ea0] [c008000000042258] bpf_prog_16d4ab9ab662f669_do_perf_event+0xf8/0x274 [...] In addition, move storing the top-level stack entry to generic perf_callchain_user to make sure the top-evel entry is always captured, even if current->mm is NULL. Fixes: 20002ded4d93 ("perf_counter: powerpc: Add callchain support") Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik Tested-by: Qiao Zhao Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote Reviewed-by: Saket Kumar Bhaskar [Maddy: fixed message to avoid checkpatch format style error] Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309144045.169427-1-vmalik@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

perf/powerpc: Use perf_arch_instruction_pointer()

2024-11-14T09:40:01Z

Make sure PowerPC uses the arch-specific function now that those have been reorganized. Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113190156.2145593-4-coltonlewis@google.com

powerpc: split validate_sp into two functions

2022-12-02T06:54:09Z

Most callers just want to validate an arbitrary kernel stack pointer, some need a particular size. Make the size case the exceptional one with an extra function. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-15-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc: Rename STACK_FRAME_MARKER and derive it from frame offset

2022-12-02T06:54:08Z

This is a count of longs from the stack pointer to the regs marker. Rename it to make it more distinct from the other byte offsets. It can be derived from the byte offset definitions just added. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-10-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc: add definition for pt_regs offset within an interrupt frame

2022-12-02T06:54:08Z

This is a common offset that currently uses the overloaded STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD constant. It's easier to read and more flexible to use a specific regs offset for this. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-8-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc/perf: callchain validate kernel stack pointer bounds

2022-12-02T06:54:07Z

The interrupt frame detection and loads from the hypothetical pt_regs are not bounds-checked. The next-frame validation only bounds-checks STACK_FRAME_OVERHEAD, which does not include the pt_regs. Add another test for this. The user could set r1 to be equal to the address matching the first interrupt frame - STACK_INT_FRAME_SIZE, which is in the previous page due to the kernel redzone, and induce the kernel to load the marker from there. Possibly this could cause a crash at least. If the user could induce the previous page to contain a valid marker, then it might be able to direct perf to read specific memory addresses in a way that could be transmitted back to the user in the perf data. Fixes: 20002ded4d93 ("perf_counter: powerpc: Add callchain support") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221127124942.1665522-4-npiggin@gmail.com

powerpc: make stack walking KASAN-safe

2021-06-16T14:09:11Z

Make our stack-walking code KASAN-safe by using __no_sanitize_address. Generic code, arm64, s390 and x86 all make accesses unchecked for similar sorts of reasons: when unwinding a stack, we might touch memory that KASAN has marked as being out-of-bounds. In ppc64 KASAN development, I hit this sometimes when checking for an exception frame - because we're checking an arbitrary offset into the stack frame. See commit 20955746320e ("s390/kasan: avoid false positives during stack unwind"), commit bcaf669b4bdb ("arm64: disable kasan when accessing frame->fp in unwind_frame"), commit 91e08ab0c851 ("x86/dumpstack: Prevent KASAN false positive warnings") and commit 6e22c8366416 ("tracing, kasan: Silence Kasan warning in check_stack of stack_tracer"). Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210614120907.1952321-1-dja@axtens.net

mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included

2020-06-09T16:39:13Z

Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2. The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once. For instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported architectures. Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils down to, e.g. static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address) { return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1); } static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address) { return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address); } These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined. For architectures that really need a custom version there is always possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic. These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table accessors to the new header. This patch (of 12): The linux/mm.h header includes to allow inlining of the functions involving page table manipulations, e.g. pte_alloc() and pmd_alloc(). So, there is no point to explicitly include in the files that include . The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop: for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do sed -i -e '/include / d' $f done Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Mark Salter Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/perf: split callchain.c by bitness

2020-04-02T13:10:00Z

Building callchain.c with !COMPAT proved quite ugly with all the defines. Splitting out the 32bit and 64bit parts looks better. No code change intended. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a20027bf1074935a7934ee2a6757c99ea047e70d.1584699455.git.msuchanek@suse.de

powerpc/64: make buildable without CONFIG_COMPAT

2020-04-02T13:10:00Z

There are numerous references to 32bit functions in generic and 64bit code so ifdef them out. Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e5619617020ef3a1f54f0c076e7d74cb9ec9f3bf.1584699455.git.msuchanek@suse.de