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Revision ddfdad991e55b65c1cc4ee29502f6dceee04455a authored by Alexander Shishkin on 15 September 2016, 15:13:51 UTC, committed by Ingo Molnar on 16 September 2016, 09:14:16 UTC
The kernel_ip() filter is used mostly by the DS/LBR code to look at the
branch addresses, but Intel PT also uses it to validate the address
filter offsets for kernel addresses, for which it is not sufficient:
supplying something in bits 64:48 that's not a sign extension of the lower
address bits (like 0xf00d000000000000) throws a #GP.

This patch adds address validation for the user supplied kernel filters.

Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org#v4.7
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160915151352.21306-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Tip revision: ddfdad991e55b65c1cc4ee29502f6dceee04455a authored by Alexander Shishkin on 15 September 2016, 15:13:51 UTC
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix kernel address filter's offset validation
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