[PATCH v1 0/2] perf: Drop leaked kernel samples

From: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	mingo@redhat.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
	me@kylehuey.com
Cc: Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vincent.weaver@maine.edu,
	will.deacon@arm.com, eranian@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
	ak@linux.intel.com, kan.liang@intel.com, yao.jin@intel.com,
	Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 0/2] perf: Drop leaked kernel samples
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 18:03:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1529057003-2212-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com> (raw)

On workloads that do a lot of kernel entry/exits we see kernel
samples, even though :u is specified. This is due to skid existing.

This might be a security issue because it can leak kernel addresses even
though kernel sampling support is disabled.

One patch "perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified"
was posted in last year but it was reverted because it introduced a
regression issue that broke the rr-project.

Now this patch set uses sysctl to control the dropping of leaked
kernel samples.

/sys/devices/cpu/perf_allow_sample_leakage:

0 - default, drop the leaked kernel samples.
1 - don't drop the leaked kernel samples.

For rr it can write 1 to /sys/devices/cpu/perf_allow_sample_leakage to
keep original system behavior.

Jin Yao (2):
  perf/core: Use sysctl to turn on/off dropping leaked kernel samples
  perf Documentation: Introduce the sysctl perf_allow_sample_leakage

 kernel/events/core.c                     | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 14 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)

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