[PATCH] perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetching

[Frederic Weisbecker]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h |    8 ++++++--
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
index e39e771..e1a93be 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h
@@ -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;
-- 
1.6.2.3



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