4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Jin Yao <[email protected]> commit cc1582c231ea041fbc68861dfaf957eaf902b829 upstream. When doing sampling, for example: perf record -e cycles:u ... On workloads that do a lot of kernel entry/exits we see kernel samples, even though :u is specified. This is due to skid existing. This might be a security issue because it can leak kernel addresses even though kernel sampling support is disabled. The patch drops the kernel samples if exclude_kernel is specified. For example, test on Haswell desktop: perf record -e cycles:u <mgen> perf report --stdio Before patch applied: 99.77% mgen mgen [.] buf_read 0.20% mgen mgen [.] rand_buf_init 0.01% mgen [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apic_timer_interrupt 0.00% mgen mgen [.] last_free_elem 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _int_malloc 0.00% mgen mgen [.] rand_array_init 0.00% mgen [kernel.vmlinux] [k] page_fault 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __strcasestr 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] strcmp 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _dl_start 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _start We can see kernel symbols apic_timer_interrupt and page_fault. After patch applied: 99.79% mgen mgen [.] buf_read 0.19% mgen mgen [.] rand_buf_init 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random_r 0.00% mgen mgen [.] rand_array_init 0.00% mgen mgen [.] last_free_elem 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] vfprintf 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] rand 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] __random 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _int_malloc 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] _IO_doallocbuf 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] do_lookup_x 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] open_verify.constprop.7 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _dl_important_hwcaps 0.00% mgen libc-2.23.so [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4 0.00% mgen ld-2.23.so [.] _start There are only userspace symbols. Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7062,6 +7062,21 @@ static void perf_log_itrace_start(struct perf_output_end(&handle); } +static bool sample_is_allowed(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + /* + * Due to interrupt latency (AKA "skid"), we may enter the + * kernel before taking an overflow, even if the PMU is only + * counting user events. + * To avoid leaking information to userspace, we must always + * reject kernel samples when exclude_kernel is set. + */ + if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs)) + return false; + + return true; +} + /* * Generic event overflow handling, sampling. */ @@ -7109,6 +7124,12 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct } /* + * For security, drop the skid kernel samples if necessary. + */ + if (!sample_is_allowed(event, regs)) + return ret; + + /* * XXX event_limit might not quite work as expected on inherited * events */
