[v3 09/15] powerpc/perf: Ignore the BHRB kernel address filtering for P10

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Jul 18 00:38:21 AEST 2020


commit bb19af816025 ("powerpc/perf: Prevent kernel address leak to
userspace via BHRB buffer") added a check in bhrb_read() to filter
the kernel address from BHRB buffer. This patch modified it to avoid
that check for PowerISA v3.1 based processors, since PowerISA v3.1
allows only MSR[PR]=1 address to be written to BHRB buffer.

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 0ffb757d..bd125fe 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -469,8 +469,11 @@ static void power_pmu_bhrb_read(struct perf_event *event, struct cpu_hw_events *
 			 * addresses at this point. Check the privileges before
 			 * exporting it to userspace (avoid exposure of regions
 			 * where we could have speculative execution)
+			 * Incase of ISA v3.1, BHRB will capture only user-space
+			 * addresses, hence include a check before filtering code
 			 */
-			if (is_kernel_addr(addr) && perf_allow_kernel(&event->attr) != 0)
+			if (!(ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_310S) &&
+				is_kernel_addr(addr) && perf_allow_kernel(&event->attr) != 0)
 				continue;
 
 			/* Branches are read most recent first (ie. mfbhrb 0 is
-- 
1.8.3.1



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