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authorFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2010-04-08 14:05:50 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2010-04-08 19:03:28 +0200
commitab285f2b5290d92b7ec1a6f9aad54308dadf6157 (patch)
tree70ffdac1d267401330b487bc6f502a9206a4ae6b /tools/perf/util/trace-event-scripting.c
parent134fbadf028a5977a1b06b0253d3ee33e6f0c642 (diff)
perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetching
When we fetch the hot regs and rewind to the nth caller, it might happen that we dereference a frame pointer outside the kernel stack boundaries, like in this example: perf_trace_sched_switch+0xd5/0x120 schedule+0x6b5/0x860 retint_careful+0xd/0x21 Since we directly dereference a userspace frame pointer here while rewinding behind retint_careful, this may end up in a crash. Fix this by simply using probe_kernel_address() when we rewind the frame pointer. This issue will have a much more proper fix in the next version of the perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() API that will only need to rewind to the first caller. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> Cc: David Miller <[email protected]> Cc: Archs <[email protected]>
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