From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: anton@samba.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree
Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 18:43:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <143058503419875@kroah.com> (raw)
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-perf-cap-64bit-userspace-backtraces-to-perf_max_stack_depth.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:51:03 +1000
Subject: powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
commit 9a5cbce421a283e6aea3c4007f141735bf9da8c3 upstream.
We cap 32bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
(currently 127), but we forgot to do the same for 64bit backtraces.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/callchain.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static void perf_callchain_user_64(struc
sp = regs->gpr[1];
perf_callchain_store(entry, next_ip);
- for (;;) {
+ while (entry->nr < PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH) {
fp = (unsigned long __user *) sp;
if (!valid_user_sp(sp, 1) || read_user_stack_64(fp, &next_sp))
return;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@samba.org are
queue-3.10/powerpc-perf-cap-64bit-userspace-backtraces-to-perf_max_stack_depth.patch
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