4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit bb19af816025d495376bd76bf6fbcf4244f9a06d ] The current Branch History Rolling Buffer (BHRB) code does not check for any privilege levels before updating the data from BHRB. This could leak kernel addresses to userspace even when profiling only with userspace privileges. Add proper checks to prevent it. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c @@ -448,6 +448,16 @@ static void power_pmu_bhrb_read(struct c /* invalid entry */ continue; + /* + * BHRB rolling buffer could very much contain the kernel + * addresses at this point. Check the privileges before + * exporting it to userspace (avoid exposure of regions + * where we could have speculative execution) + */ + if (perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && + is_kernel_addr(addr)) + continue; + /* Branches are read most recent first (ie. mfbhrb 0 is * the most recent branch). * There are two types of valid entries:
