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Ravi Bangoria authored
It's theoretically possible that branch instructions recorded in BHRB (Branch History Rolling Buffer) entries have already been unmapped before they are processed by the kernel. Hence, trying to dereference such memory location will result in a crash. eg: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0xd000000019c41764 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000084a14 NIP [c000000000084a14] branch_target+0x4/0x70 LR [c0000000000eb828] record_and_restart+0x568/0x5c0 Call Trace: [c0000000000eb3b4] record_and_restart+0xf4/0x5c0 (unreliable) [c0000000000ec378] perf_event_interrupt+0x298/0x460 [c000000000027964] performance_monitor_exception+0x54/0x70 [c000000000009ba4] performance_monitor_common+0x114/0x120 Fix it by deferefencing the addresses safely. Fixes: 69123184 ("powerpc/perf: Fix setting of "to" addresses for BHRB") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+ Suggested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Use probe_kernel_read() which is clearer, tweak change log] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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