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| author | Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com> | 2026-07-10 22:04:49 +0530 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2026-07-11 12:19:28 +0200 |
| commit | 47915e855fb38b42133e31ba917d99565f862154 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b9ab27b70a86fd9f311b9835aec2016104d6c49 /scripts/sbom/git@git.tavy.me:linux-stable.git | |
| parent | 2a892294b83f541115c94b0bb637f39bef187657 (diff) | |
perf/x86/amd/brs: Fix kernel address leakage
A user-only branch stack can contain branches that originate from
the kernel. As a result, kernel addresses are exposed to user space
even when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested. On AMD processors
supporting X86_FEATURE_BRS (Zen 3 only), perf can still report entries
such as SYSRET/interrupt returns for which the branch-from addresses
are in the kernel.
E.g.
$ perf record -j any,u -c 4000 -e branch-brs -o - -- \
perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \
perf script -i - -F brstack|tr ' ' '\n'| \
grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'
...
0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2e32955eb/-/-/-/0//-
0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94a9821/-/-/-/0//-
0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94ffa1b/-/-/-/0//-
...
BRS provides no hardware branch filtering, so privilege level
filtering is performed entirely in software. However, amd_brs_match_plm()
only validates the branch-to address against the requested privilege
levels. For branches from the kernel to user space, the branch-from
address is left unchecked and is leaked. Extend the software filter to
also validate the branch-from address, so that any branch record whose
branch-from address is in the kernel is dropped when
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested.
Fixes: 8910075d61a3 ("perf/x86/amd: Enable branch sampling priv level filtering")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f05931c4f89a146c364bd5dc6b8170b1ac611c65.1783701239.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710110235.F3FD81F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
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