Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is mostly tooling fixes, plus an instruction pointer filtering
  fix.

  It's more fixes than usual - Arnaldo got back from a longer vacation
  and there was a backlog"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  perf symbols: Kill dso__build_id_is_kmod()
  perf symbols: Keep DSO->symtab_type after decompress
  perf tests: Decompress kernel module before objdump
  perf tools: Consolidate error path in __open_dso()
  perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data
  perf annotate: Use dso__decompress_kmodule_path()
  perf tools: Introduce dso__decompress_kmodule_{fd,path}
  perf tools: Fix a memory leak in __open_dso()
  perf annotate: Fix symbolic link of build-id cache
  perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified
  perf script python: Remove dups in documentation examples
  perf script python: Updated trace_unhandled() signature
  perf script python: Fix wrong code snippets in documentation
  perf script: Fix documentation errors
  perf script: Fix outdated comment for perf-trace-python
  perf probe: Fix examples section of documentation
  perf report: Ensure the perf DSO mapping matches what libdw sees
  perf report: Include partial stacks unwound with libdw
  perf annotate: Add missing powerpc triplet
  perf test: Disable breakpoint signal tests for powerpc
  ...

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 6e75a5c9412d..6c4e523dc1e2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7316,6 +7316,21 @@ int perf_event_account_interrupt(struct perf_event *event)
 	return __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, 1);
 }
 
+static bool sample_is_allowed(struct perf_event *event, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Due to interrupt latency (AKA "skid"), we may enter the
+	 * kernel before taking an overflow, even if the PMU is only
+	 * counting user events.
+	 * To avoid leaking information to userspace, we must always
+	 * reject kernel samples when exclude_kernel is set.
+	 */
+	if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
 /*
  * Generic event overflow handling, sampling.
  */
@@ -7337,6 +7352,12 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
 	ret = __perf_event_account_interrupt(event, throttle);
 
 	/*
+	 * For security, drop the skid kernel samples if necessary.
+	 */
+	if (!sample_is_allowed(event, regs))
+		return ret;
+
+	/*
 	 * XXX event_limit might not quite work as expected on inherited
 	 * events
 	 */