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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2016-07-01 23:02:05 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-07-03 10:43:00 +0200
commitfc18822510721fe694d273c5211c71ea52796d76 (patch)
treec7b84d541a451279c6bc072d02c80e7ca2cd9c0a /Documentation/misc-devices
parent9010ae4a8dee29e5886e86682799dde0eee7f447 (diff)
perf/x86: Fix 32-bit perf user callgraph collection
A basic perf callgraph record operation causes an immediate panic on a 32-bit kernel compiled with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y: $ perf record -g ls Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: c0404fbd CPU: 0 PID: 998 Comm: ls Not tainted 4.7.0-rc5+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.1-1.fc24 04/01/2014 c0dd5967 ff7afe1c 00000086 f41dbc2c c07445a0 464c457f f41dbca8 f41dbc44 c05646f4 f41dbca8 464c457f f41dbca8 464c457f f41dbc54 c04625be c0ce56fc c0404fbd f41dbc88 c0404fbd b74668f0 f41dc000 00000000 c0000000 00000000 Call Trace: [<c07445a0>] dump_stack+0x58/0x78 [<c05646f4>] panic+0x8e/0x1c6 [<c04625be>] __stack_chk_fail+0x1e/0x30 [<c0404fbd>] ? perf_callchain_user+0x22d/0x230 [<c0404fbd>] perf_callchain_user+0x22d/0x230 [<c055f89f>] get_perf_callchain+0x1ff/0x270 [<c055f988>] perf_callchain+0x78/0x90 [<c055c7eb>] perf_prepare_sample+0x24b/0x370 [<c055c934>] perf_event_output_forward+0x24/0x70 [<c05531c0>] __perf_event_overflow+0xa0/0x210 [<c0550a93>] ? cpu_clock_event_read+0x43/0x50 [<c0553431>] perf_swevent_hrtimer+0x101/0x180 [<c0456235>] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0x35/0x140 [<c056dc69>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x279/0x950 [<c058fdd8>] ? vma_interval_tree_remove+0x158/0x230 [<c05939f4>] ? wp_page_copy.isra.82+0x2f4/0x630 [<c05a050d>] ? page_add_file_rmap+0x1d/0x50 [<c0565611>] ? unlock_page+0x61/0x80 [<c0566755>] ? filemap_map_pages+0x305/0x320 [<c059769f>] ? handle_mm_fault+0xb7f/0x1560 [<c074cbeb>] ? timerqueue_del+0x1b/0x70 [<c04cfefe>] ? __remove_hrtimer+0x2e/0x60 [<c04d017b>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0xcb/0x2a0 [<c0553330>] ? __perf_event_overflow+0x210/0x210 [<c04d0a2a>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x8a/0x180 [<c043ecc2>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x32/0x60 [<c043f643>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x33/0x50 [<c0b0cd38>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x3c Kernel Offset: disabled ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: c0404fbd The panic is caused by the fact that perf_callchain_user() mistakenly assumes it's 64-bit only and ends up corrupting the stack. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5+ Fixes: 75925e1ad7f5 ("perf/x86: Optimize stack walk user accesses") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a547f5077ec30f75f9b57074837c3c80df86e5e.1467432113.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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