From cfa77bc4af2c75c0781ee76cde2dd104c6c8e2b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Olsa Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 16:56:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Disallow user-space callchains for function trace events Recent issues with user space callchains processing within page fault handler tracing showed as Peter said 'there's just too much fail surface'. Related list discussions: http://marc.info/?t=139302086500001&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=139301437300003&r=1&w=2 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393775800-13524-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c index e854f420e033..d5e01c3f4e69 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c @@ -31,9 +31,18 @@ static int perf_trace_event_perm(struct ftrace_event_call *tp_event, } /* The ftrace function trace is allowed only for root. */ - if (ftrace_event_is_function(tp_event) && - perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) - return -EPERM; + if (ftrace_event_is_function(tp_event)) { + if (perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM; + + /* + * We don't allow user space callchains for function trace + * event, due to issues with page faults while tracing page + * fault handler and its overall trickiness nature. + */ + if (!p_event->attr.exclude_callchain_user) + return -EINVAL; + } /* No tracing, just counting, so no obvious leak */ if (!(p_event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW))