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Will Deacon 88b0193d94 perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user()
Perf can generate and record a user callchain in response to a synchronous
request, such as a tracepoint firing. If this happens under set_fs(KERNEL_DS),
then we can end up walking the user stack (and dereferencing/saving whatever we
find there) without the protections usually afforded by checks such as
access_ok.

Rather than play whack-a-mole with each architecture's stack unwinding
implementation, fix the root of the problem by ensuring that we force USER_DS
when invoking perf_callchain_user from the perf core.

Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-10 07:54:00 +02:00
arch perf/core improvements and fixes: 2017-05-03 19:28:27 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix potential oops with polling and blk-mq scheduler 2017-04-20 14:53:28 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-04-18 09:03:50 -07:00
Documentation perf/core improvements and fixes: 2017-05-03 19:28:27 +02:00
drivers perf/core improvements and fixes: 2017-05-03 19:28:27 +02:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs perf/core improvements and fixes: 2017-05-03 19:28:27 +02:00
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init mm: move mm_percpu_wq initialization earlier 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user() 2017-05-10 07:54:00 +02:00
lib Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-04-29 14:00:42 -07:00
mm mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative 2017-04-20 15:30:18 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-04-28 14:13:16 -07:00
samples statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx 2017-04-03 01:06:00 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.11 2017-04-05 08:37:28 -07:00
security KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings 2017-04-18 15:31:49 +01:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.11 2017-04-25 17:43:56 +02:00
tools tools build: Fixup sched_getcpu feature test 2017-05-04 10:30:40 -03:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.11-rc6 2017-04-05 16:27:47 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.