perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetching
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:05:50 +0000 (14:05 +0200)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:03:28 +0000 (19:03 +0200)
When we fetch the hot regs and rewind to the nth caller, it
might happen that we dereference a frame pointer outside the
kernel stack boundaries, like in this example:

perf_trace_sched_switch+0xd5/0x120
        schedule+0x6b5/0x860
        retint_careful+0xd/0x21

Since we directly dereference a userspace frame pointer here while
rewinding behind retint_careful, this may end up in a crash.

Fix this by simply using probe_kernel_address() when we rewind the
frame pointer.

This issue will have a much more proper fix in the next version of the
perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() API that will only need to rewind to the
first caller.

Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h

index e39e771..e1a93be 100644 (file)
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 #define get_bp(bp) asm("movq %%rbp, %0" : "=r" (bp) :)
 #endif
 
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+
 extern void
 show_trace_log_lvl(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
                unsigned long *stack, unsigned long bp, char *log_lvl);
@@ -42,8 +44,10 @@ static inline unsigned long rewind_frame_pointer(int n)
        get_bp(frame);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
-       while (n--)
-               frame = frame->next_frame;
+       while (n--) {
+               if (probe_kernel_address(&frame->next_frame, frame))
+                       break;
+       }
 #endif
 
        return (unsigned long)frame;