FAILED: patch "[PATCH] perf: Require kernel access for text poke events" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 357e8a77a501d96c9517f01f4a211eed5e9c9184
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026100517-flask-antiviral-2fbf@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 357e8a77a501d96c9517f01f4a211eed5e9c9184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:59:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Require kernel access for text poke events

Perf events with exclude_kernel=1 can be opened without kernel perf
access. However, exclude_kernel does not suppress text-poke sideband
records. Every PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE is marked PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL
and contains a raw kernel instruction address.

An unprivileged task can therefore open and mmap a task-local software
event with text_poke=1. Both opening a count-only tracepoint event and
configuring UDP GRO for ESP-in-UDP cause updates to inline static calls;
the observer receives the relocated addresses of the modified instructions.
For a known kernel image, any such address reveals the runtime kernel
text base despite KASLR.

Call perf_allow_kernel() whenever attr.text_poke is set, regardless of
exclude_kernel. Events that neither monitor kernel execution nor request
text-poke records retain their existing permissions.

Fixes: e17d43b93e54 ("perf: Add perf text poke event")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Zhengchuan Liang <zcliangcn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/99131354c41e23188f778b92f90363775b482395.1790573390.git.zcliangcn@gmail.com

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 3aa223595e7d..7846d70be57f 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -13906,7 +13906,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	if (!attr.exclude_kernel ||
+	if (!attr.exclude_kernel || attr.text_poke ||
 	    ((attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) &&
 	     !attr.exclude_callchain_kernel)) {
 		err = perf_allow_kernel();