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<updated>2022-01-20T08:12:19Z</updated>
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<title>perf: Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU</title>
<updated>2022-01-20T08:12:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
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<published>2021-11-11T02:07:22Z</published>
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commit ff083a2d972f56bebfd82409ca62e5dfce950961 upstream.

Protect perf_guest_cbs with RCU to fix multiple possible errors.  Luckily,
all paths that read perf_guest_cbs already require RCU protection, e.g. to
protect the callback chains, so only the direct perf_guest_cbs touchpoints
need to be modified.

Bug #1 is a simple lack of WRITE_ONCE/READ_ONCE behavior to ensure
perf_guest_cbs isn't reloaded between a !NULL check and a dereference.
Fixed via the READ_ONCE() in rcu_dereference().

Bug #2 is that on weakly-ordered architectures, updates to the callbacks
themselves are not guaranteed to be visible before the pointer is made
visible to readers.  Fixed by the smp_store_release() in
rcu_assign_pointer() when the new pointer is non-NULL.

Bug #3 is that, because the callbacks are global, it's possible for
readers to run in parallel with an unregisters, and thus a module
implementing the callbacks can be unloaded while readers are in flight,
resulting in a use-after-free.  Fixed by a synchronize_rcu() call when
unregistering callbacks.

Bug #1 escaped notice because it's extremely unlikely a compiler will
reload perf_guest_cbs in this sequence.  perf_guest_cbs does get reloaded
for future derefs, e.g. for -&gt;is_user_mode(), but the -&gt;is_in_guest()
guard all but guarantees the consumer will win the race, e.g. to nullify
perf_guest_cbs, KVM has to completely exit the guest and teardown down
all VMs before KVM start its module unload / unregister sequence.  This
also makes it all but impossible to encounter bug #3.

Bug #2 has not been a problem because all architectures that register
callbacks are strongly ordered and/or have a static set of callbacks.

But with help, unloading kvm_intel can trigger bug #1 e.g. wrapping
perf_guest_cbs with READ_ONCE in perf_misc_flags() while spamming
kvm_intel module load/unload leads to:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  CPU: 6 PID: 1825 Comm: stress Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2+ #459
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:perf_misc_flags+0x1c/0x70
  Call Trace:
   perf_prepare_sample+0x53/0x6b0
   perf_event_output_forward+0x67/0x160
   __perf_event_overflow+0x52/0xf0
   handle_pmi_common+0x207/0x300
   intel_pmu_handle_irq+0xcf/0x410
   perf_event_nmi_handler+0x28/0x50
   nmi_handle+0xc7/0x260
   default_do_nmi+0x6b/0x170
   exc_nmi+0x103/0x130
   asm_exc_nmi+0x76/0xbf

Fixes: 39447b386c84 ("perf: Enhance perf to allow for guest statistic collection from host")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211111020738.2512932-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>arm64: stacktrace: Relax frame record alignment requirement to 8 bytes</title>
<updated>2021-05-26T19:01:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Collingbourne</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-26T17:49:26Z</published>
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The AAPCS places no requirements on the alignment of the frame
record. In theory it could be placed anywhere, although it seems
sensible to require it to be aligned to 8 bytes. With an upcoming
enhancement to tag-based KASAN Clang will begin creating frame records
located at an address that is only aligned to 8 bytes. Accommodate
such frame records in the stack unwinding code.

As pointed out by Mark Rutland, the userspace stack unwinding code
has the same problem, so fix it there as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne &lt;pcc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/Ia22c375230e67ca055e9e4bb639383567f7ad268
Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210526174927.2477847-2-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: stacktrace: Make stack walk callback consistent with generic code</title>
<updated>2020-09-18T13:24:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
</author>
<published>2020-09-14T15:34:08Z</published>
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As with the generic arch_stack_walk() code the arm64 stack walk code takes
a callback that is called per stack frame. Currently the arm64 code always
passes a struct stackframe to the callback and the generic code just passes
the pc, however none of the users ever reference anything in the struct
other than the pc value. The arm64 code also uses a return type of int
while the generic code uses a return type of bool though in both cases the
return value is a boolean value and the sense is inverted between the two.

In order to reduce code duplication when arm64 is converted to use
arch_stack_walk() change the signature and return sense of the arm64
specific callback to match that of the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914153409.25097-3-broonie@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: stacktrace: Factor out backtrace initialisation</title>
<updated>2019-07-22T10:44:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Martin</name>
</author>
<published>2019-07-02T13:07:28Z</published>
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Some common code is required by each stacktrace user to initialise
struct stackframe before the first call to unwind_frame().

In preparation for adding to the common code, this patch factors it
out into a separate function start_backtrace(), and modifies the
stacktrace callers appropriately.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
[Mark: drop tsk argument, update more callsites]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 234</title>
<updated>2019-06-19T15:09:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
</author>
<published>2019-06-03T05:44:50Z</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
  published by the free software foundation this program is
  distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
  warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
  licenses

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras &lt;alexios.zavras@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt &lt;info@metux.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57Z</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-12-31T19:46:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2018-12-31T19:46:59Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Rework of the kprobe/uprobe and synthetic events to consolidate all
   the dynamic event code. This will make changes in the future easier.

 - Partial rewrite of the function graph tracing infrastructure. This
   will allow for multiple users of hooking onto functions to get the
   callback (return) of the function. This is the ground work for having
   kprobes and function graph tracer using one code base.

 - Clean up of the histogram code that will facilitate adding more
   features to the histograms in the future.

 - Addition of str_has_prefix() and a few use cases. There currently is
   a similar function strstart() that is used in a few places, but only
   returns a bool and not a length. These instances will be removed in
   the future to use str_has_prefix() instead.

 - A few other various clean ups as well.

* tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
  tracing: Use the return of str_has_prefix() to remove open coded numbers
  tracing: Have the historgram use the result of str_has_prefix() for len of prefix
  tracing: Use str_has_prefix() instead of using fixed sizes
  tracing: Use str_has_prefix() helper for histogram code
  string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function
  tracing: Make function ‘ftrace_exports’ static
  tracing: Simplify printf'ing in seq_print_sym
  tracing: Avoid -Wformat-nonliteral warning
  tracing: Merge seq_print_sym_short() and seq_print_sym_offset()
  tracing: Add hist trigger comments for variable-related fields
  tracing: Remove hist trigger synth_var_refs
  tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs
  tracing: Remove open-coding of hist trigger var_ref management
  tracing: Use var_refs[] for hist trigger reference checking
  tracing: Change strlen to sizeof for hist trigger static strings
  tracing: Remove unnecessary hist trigger struct field
  tracing: Fix ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to use task and not current
  seq_buf: Use size_t for len in seq_buf_puts()
  seq_buf: Make seq_buf_puts() null-terminate the buffer
  arm64: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack</title>
<updated>2018-12-22T13:21:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:13:28Z</published>
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The structure of the ret_stack array on the task struct is going to
change, and accessing it directly via the curr_ret_stack index will no
longer give the ret_stack entry that holds the return address. To access
that, architectures must now use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to get the
associated ret_stack that matches the saved return address.

Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: perf: strip PAC when unwinding userspace</title>
<updated>2018-12-13T16:42:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2018-12-07T18:39:27Z</published>
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When the kernel is unwinding userspace callchains, we can't expect that
the userspace consumer of these callchains has the data necessary to
strip the PAC from the stored LR.

This patch has the kernel strip the PAC from user stackframes when the
in-kernel unwinder is used. This only affects the LR value, and not the
FP.

This only affects the in-kernel unwinder. When userspace performs
unwinding, it is up to userspace to strip PACs as necessary (which can
be determined from DWARF information).

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kristina Martsenko &lt;kristina.martsenko@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ramana Radhakrishnan &lt;ramana.radhakrishnan@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: unwind: remove sp from struct stackframe</title>
<updated>2017-08-09T13:10:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-23T08:05:38Z</published>
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The unwind code sets the sp member of struct stackframe to
'frame pointer + 0x10' unconditionally, without regard for whether
doing so produces a legal value. So let's simply remove it now that
we have stopped using it anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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