Core perf code updates:
- Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This
is in reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which
could have been detected earlier and could have mitigated
the bug somewhat. (Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)
- Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation
for sframes. (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which
gives a substantial speedup. (Jiri Olsa)
- Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)
PMU driver updates:
- Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver
(Dapeng Mi)
Misc cleanups and fixes:
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core perf code updates:
- Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)
- Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)
Uprobes updates:
- Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)
- Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)
PMU driver updates:
- Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)
Misc cleanups and fixes:
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL
perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
...
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.
While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.
Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea095 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) <guoren@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The uprobe syscall stores and strips the trampoline stack frame from
the user context, to make it appear similar to an exception at the
original instruction. It then restores the trampoline stack when it
can exit using sysexit.
Make sure to match the regular stack manipulation with shadow stack
operations such that regular and shadow stack don't get out of sync
and causes trouble.
This enables using the optimization when shadow stack is in use.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250821123657.055790090@infradead.org
While the GCC and Clang compilers already define __ASSEMBLER__
automatically when compiling assembly code, __ASSEMBLY__ is a
macro that only gets defined by the Makefiles in the kernel.
This can be very confusing when switching between userspace
and kernelspace coding, or when dealing with UAPI headers that
rather should use __ASSEMBLER__ instead. So let's standardize on
the __ASSEMBLER__ macro that is provided by the compilers now.
This is mostly a mechanical patch (done with a simple "sed -i"
statement), with some manual tweaks in <asm/frame.h>, <asm/hw_irq.h>
and <asm/setup.h> that mentioned this macro in comments with some
missing underscores.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314071013.1575167-38-thuth@redhat.com
Adding uretprobe syscall instead of trap to speed up return probe.
At the moment the uretprobe setup/path is:
- install entry uprobe
- when the uprobe is hit, it overwrites probed function's return address
on stack with address of the trampoline that contains breakpoint
instruction
- the breakpoint trap code handles the uretprobe consumers execution and
jumps back to original return address
This patch replaces the above trampoline's breakpoint instruction with new
ureprobe syscall call. This syscall does exactly the same job as the trap
with some more extra work:
- syscall trampoline must save original value for rax/r11/rcx registers
on stack - rax is set to syscall number and r11/rcx are changed and
used by syscall instruction
- the syscall code reads the original values of those registers and
restore those values in task's pt_regs area
- only caller from trampoline exposed in '[uprobes]' is allowed,
the process will receive SIGILL signal otherwise
Even with some extra work, using the uretprobes syscall shows speed
improvement (compared to using standard breakpoint):
On Intel (11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz)
current:
uretprobe-nop : 1.498 ± 0.000M/s
uretprobe-push : 1.448 ± 0.001M/s
uretprobe-ret : 0.816 ± 0.001M/s
with the fix:
uretprobe-nop : 1.969 ± 0.002M/s < 31% speed up
uretprobe-push : 1.910 ± 0.000M/s < 31% speed up
uretprobe-ret : 0.934 ± 0.000M/s < 14% speed up
On Amd (AMD Ryzen 7 5700U)
current:
uretprobe-nop : 0.778 ± 0.001M/s
uretprobe-push : 0.744 ± 0.001M/s
uretprobe-ret : 0.540 ± 0.001M/s
with the fix:
uretprobe-nop : 0.860 ± 0.001M/s < 10% speed up
uretprobe-push : 0.818 ± 0.001M/s < 10% speed up
uretprobe-ret : 0.578 ± 0.000M/s < 7% speed up
The performance test spawns a thread that runs loop which triggers
uprobe with attached bpf program that increments the counter that
gets printed in results above.
The uprobe (and uretprobe) kind is determined by which instruction
is being patched with breakpoint instruction. That's also important
for uretprobes, because uprobe is installed for each uretprobe.
The performance test is part of bpf selftests:
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/run_bench_uprobes.sh
Note at the moment uretprobe syscall is supported only for native
64-bit process, compat process still uses standard breakpoint.
Note that when shadow stack is enabled the uretprobe syscall returns
via iret, which is slower than return via sysret, but won't cause the
shadow stack violation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240611112158.40795-4-jolsa@kernel.org/
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Currently the application with enabled shadow stack will crash
if it sets up return uprobe. The reason is the uretprobe kernel
code changes the user space task's stack, but does not update
shadow stack accordingly.
Adding new functions to update values on shadow stack and using
them in uprobe code to keep shadow stack in sync with uretprobe
changes to user stack.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240611112158.40795-2-jolsa@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: 488af8ea71 ("x86/shstk: Wire in shadow stack interface")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
CRIU and GDB need to get the current shadow stack and WRSS enablement
status. This information is already available via /proc/pid/status, but
this is inconvenient for CRIU because it involves parsing the text output
in an area of the code where this is difficult. Provide a status
arch_prctl(), ARCH_SHSTK_STATUS for retrieving the status. Have arg2 be a
userspace address, and make the new arch_prctl simply copy the features
out to userspace.
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-43-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
When a signal is handled, the context is pushed to the stack before
handling it. For shadow stacks, since the shadow stack only tracks return
addresses, there isn't any state that needs to be pushed. However, there
are still a few things that need to be done. These things are visible to
userspace and which will be kernel ABI for shadow stacks.
One is to make sure the restorer address is written to shadow stack, since
the signal handler (if not changing ucontext) returns to the restorer, and
the restorer calls sigreturn. So add the restorer on the shadow stack
before handling the signal, so there is not a conflict when the signal
handler returns to the restorer.
The other thing to do is to place some type of checkable token on the
thread's shadow stack before handling the signal and check it during
sigreturn. This is an extra layer of protection to hamper attackers
calling sigreturn manually as in SROP-like attacks.
For this token the shadow stack data format defined earlier can be used.
Have the data pushed be the previous SSP. In the future the sigreturn
might want to return back to a different stack. Storing the SSP (instead
of a restore offset or something) allows for future functionality that
may want to restore to a different stack.
So, when handling a signal push
- the SSP pointing in the shadow stack data format
- the restorer address below the restore token.
In sigreturn, verify SSP is stored in the data format and pop the shadow
stack.
Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-32-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
When a process is duplicated, but the child shares the address space with
the parent, there is potential for the threads sharing a single stack to
cause conflicts for each other. In the normal non-CET case this is handled
in two ways.
With regular CLONE_VM a new stack is provided by userspace such that the
parent and child have different stacks.
For vfork, the parent is suspended until the child exits. So as long as
the child doesn't return from the vfork()/CLONE_VFORK calling function and
sticks to a limited set of operations, the parent and child can share the
same stack.
For shadow stack, these scenarios present similar sharing problems. For the
CLONE_VM case, the child and the parent must have separate shadow stacks.
Instead of changing clone to take a shadow stack, have the kernel just
allocate one and switch to it.
Use stack_size passed from clone3() syscall for thread shadow stack size. A
compat-mode thread shadow stack size is further reduced to 1/4. This
allows more threads to run in a 32-bit address space. The clone() does not
pass stack_size, which was added to clone3(). In that case, use
RLIMIT_STACK size and cap to 4 GB.
For shadow stack enabled vfork(), the parent and child can share the same
shadow stack, like they can share a normal stack. Since the parent is
suspended until the child terminates, the child will not interfere with
the parent while executing as long as it doesn't return from the vfork()
and overwrite up the shadow stack. The child can safely overwrite down
the shadow stack, as the parent can just overwrite this later. So CET does
not add any additional limitations for vfork().
Free the shadow stack on thread exit by doing it in mm_release(). Skip
this when exiting a vfork() child since the stack is shared in the
parent.
During this operation, the shadow stack pointer of the new thread needs
to be updated to point to the newly allocated shadow stack. Since the
ability to do this is confined to the FPU subsystem, change
fpu_clone() to take the new shadow stack pointer, and update it
internally inside the FPU subsystem. This part was suggested by Thomas
Gleixner.
Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-30-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Introduce basic shadow stack enabling/disabling/allocation routines.
A task's shadow stack is allocated from memory with VM_SHADOW_STACK flag
and has a fixed size of min(RLIMIT_STACK, 4GB).
Keep the task's shadow stack address and size in thread_struct. This will
be copied when cloning new threads, but needs to be cleared during exec,
so add a function to do this.
32 bit shadow stack is not expected to have many users and it will
complicate the signal implementation. So do not support IA32 emulation
or x32.
Co-developed-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-29-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Add three new arch_prctl() handles:
- ARCH_SHSTK_ENABLE/DISABLE enables or disables the specified
feature. Returns 0 on success or a negative value on error.
- ARCH_SHSTK_LOCK prevents future disabling or enabling of the
specified feature. Returns 0 on success or a negative value
on error.
The features are handled per-thread and inherited over fork(2)/clone(2),
but reset on exec().
Co-developed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@intel.com>
Tested-by: John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230613001108.3040476-27-rick.p.edgecombe%40intel.com
Linus Torvalds