From: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Saket Kumar Bhaskar <skb99@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 15:40:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309144045.169427-1-vmalik@redhat.com> (raw)
It may happen that mm is already released, which leads to kernel panic.
This adds the NULL check for current->mm, similarly to 20afc60f892d
("x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user
callchain").
I was getting this panic when running a profiling BPF program
(profile.py from bcc-tools):
[26215.051935] Kernel attempted to read user page (588) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[26215.051950] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000588
[26215.051952] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000020fac0
[26215.051957] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[...]
[26215.052049] Call Trace:
[26215.052050] [c000000061da6d30] [c00000000020fc10] perf_callchain_user_64+0x2d0/0x490 (unreliable)
[26215.052054] [c000000061da6dc0] [c00000000020f92c] perf_callchain_user+0x1c/0x30
[26215.052057] [c000000061da6de0] [c0000000005ab2a0] get_perf_callchain+0x100/0x360
[26215.052063] [c000000061da6e70] [c000000000573bc8] bpf_get_stackid+0x88/0xf0
[26215.052067] [c000000061da6ea0] [c008000000042258] bpf_prog_16d4ab9ab662f669_do_perf_event+0xf8/0x274
[...]
In addition, move storing the top-level stack entry to generic
perf_callchain_user to make sure the top-evel entry is always captured,
even if current->mm is NULL.
Fixes: 20002ded4d93 ("perf_counter: powerpc: Add callchain support")
Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Move call to perf_callchain_store() for the top-level stack entry to
common perf_callchain_user (Saket)
arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c | 5 +++++
arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c | 1 -
arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_64.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c
index 26aa26482c9a..992cc5c98214 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ perf_callchain_kernel(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *re
void
perf_callchain_user(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
+ perf_callchain_store(entry, perf_arch_instruction_pointer(regs));
+
+ if (!current->mm)
+ return;
+
if (!is_32bit_task())
perf_callchain_user_64(entry, regs);
else
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c
index ddcc2d8aa64a..0de21c5d272c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_32.c
@@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ void perf_callchain_user_32(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
next_ip = perf_arch_instruction_pointer(regs);
lr = regs->link;
sp = regs->gpr[1];
- perf_callchain_store(entry, next_ip);
while (entry->nr < entry->max_stack) {
fp = (unsigned int __user *) (unsigned long) sp;
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_64.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_64.c
index 115d1c105e8a..30fb61c5f0cb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain_64.c
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ void perf_callchain_user_64(struct perf_callchain_entry_ctx *entry,
next_ip = perf_arch_instruction_pointer(regs);
lr = regs->link;
sp = regs->gpr[1];
- perf_callchain_store(entry, next_ip);
while (entry->nr < entry->max_stack) {
fp = (unsigned long __user *) sp;
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 14:40 Viktor Malik [this message]
2026-03-09 16:29 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain Saket Kumar Bhaskar
2026-03-10 6:30 ` Venkat
2026-03-10 13:24 ` Qiao Zhao
2026-03-15 4:01 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
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