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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 6e75a5c9412d..6c4e523dc1e2 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7316,6 +7316,21 @@ int perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event) return __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, 1); } +static bool sample_is_allowed(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + /* + * Due to interrupt latency (AKA "skid"), we may enter the + * kernel before taking an overflow, even if the PMU is only + * counting user events. + * To avoid leaking information to userspace, we must always + * reject kernel samples when exclude_kernel is set. + */ + if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs)) + return false; + + return true; +} + /* * Generic event overflow handling, sampling. */ @@ -7337,6 +7352,12 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event, ret = __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, throttle); /* + * For security, drop the skid kernel samples if necessary. + */ + if (!sample_is_allowed(event, regs)) + return ret; + + /* * XXX event_limit might not quite work as expected on inherited * events */ |