Commit 2a892294b83f for kernel
commit 2a892294b83f541115c94b0bb637f39bef187657
Author: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Date: Fri Jul 10 16:15:27 2026 +0530
perf/x86/amd/lbr: Fix kernel address leakage
A user-only branch stack can contain branches that originate from
the kernel. As a result, kernel addresses are exposed to user space
even when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested. On AMD processors
supporting X86_FEATURE_AMD_LBR_V2, perf can still report SYSRET/ERET
entries for which the branch-from addresses are in the kernel.
E.g.
$ perf record -e cycles -o - -j any,save_type,u -- \
perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \
perf script -i - -F brstack|tr ' ' '\n'| \
grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'
...
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a38f1a/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a39157/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a2c628/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a41b60/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a260db/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a90a260db/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a8bef1c30/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
0xffffffff81001268/0x717a8e4d3c90/M/-/-/0/ERET/NON_SPEC_CORRECT_PATH
...
The reason is that the hardware filter only considers the privilege
level applicable to the branch target. Extend software filtering to
also validate the branch-from addresses against br_sel, so that any
branch record whose branch-from address is in the kernel is dropped
when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested.
Fixes: f4f925dae741 ("perf/x86/amd/lbr: Add LbrExtV2 hardware branch filter support")
Reported-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a898a29725f6b2f30518354cdc2e432db66c43cf.1783680119.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
index 5b437dc8e4ce..9d9c961989d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/lbr.c
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ static void amd_pmu_lbr_filter(void)
}
/* If type does not correspond, then discard */
- if (type == X86_BR_NONE || (br_sel & type) != type) {
+ if (type == X86_BR_NONE || (br_sel & type) != type ||
+ (!(br_sel & X86_BR_KERNEL) && kernel_ip(cpuc->lbr_entries[i].from))) {
cpuc->lbr_entries[i].from = 0; /* mark invalid */
compress = true;
}