Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix oops when kthread execs user process

[Mark Rutland]

On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 05:24:36PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 06:19:55PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 03:35:10PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 03:25:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:05:21PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 02:55:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > >  	if (user_mode(regs)) {
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hmm, so it just occurred to me that Mark's observation is that the regs
> > > > > can be junk in some cases. In which case, should we be checking for
> > > > > kthreads first?
> > > > 
> > > > task_pt_regs() can return garbage, but @regs is the exception (or
> > > > perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs()) regs, and for those user_mode() had
> > > > better be correct.
> > > 
> > > So what should we report for the idle task?
> > 
> > If an interrupt hits the idle task, @regs would be !user_mode(regs),
> > we'll find current->flags & PF_KTHREAD (idle not having passed through
> > exec()) and therefore we'll take ABI_NONE for the user regs.
> > 
> > Or am I not getting it?
> 
> If the contents of task_pt_regs(current) is garbage, then the result of
> user_mode(task_pt_regs(current)) is also garbage, no?

Ugh; I was being thick here and assuming regs was the result of
task_pt_regs() when it's actually the interrupted regs.

Sorry for the noise.

Generally speaking though, if we ever task task_pt_regs() of an idle
task we'll get junk, and user_mode() could be true.

Thanks,
Mark.