* [PATCH] powerpc/perf: Ensure all EBB register state is cleared on fork()
@ 2014-06-10 6:46 Michael Ellerman
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From: Michael Ellerman @ 2014-06-10 6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev
In commit 330a1eb "Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s" I messed up
clear_task_ebb(). It clears some but not all of the task's Event Based
Branch (EBB) registers when we duplicate a task struct.
That allows a child task to observe the EBBHR & EBBRR of its parent,
which it should not be able to do.
Fix it by clearing EBBHR & EBBRR.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 0e83e7d..b5fad8a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ static inline void clear_task_ebb(struct task_struct *t)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
/* EBB perf events are not inherited, so clear all EBB state. */
+ t->thread.ebbrr = 0;
+ t->thread.ebbhr = 0;
t->thread.bescr = 0;
t->thread.mmcr2 = 0;
t->thread.mmcr0 = 0;
--
1.9.1
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