The following commit has been merged into the perf/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     47915e855fb38b42133e31ba917d99565f862154
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/47915e855fb38b42133e31ba917d99565f862154
Author:        Sandipan Das <sandipan.das@amd.com>
AuthorDate:    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:04:49 +05:30
Committer:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitterDate: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:19:28 +02:00

perf/x86/amd/brs: 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_BRS (Zen 3 only), perf can still report entries
such as SYSRET/interrupt returns for which the branch-from addresses
are in the kernel.

E.g.

  $ perf record -j any,u -c 4000 -e branch-brs -o - -- \
        perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \
        perf script -i - -F brstack|tr ' ' '\n'| \
        grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'

  ...
  0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2e32955eb/-/-/-/0//-
  0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94a9821/-/-/-/0//-
  0xffffffff810001c4/0x72e2d94ffa1b/-/-/-/0//-
  ...

BRS provides no hardware branch filtering, so privilege level
filtering is performed entirely in software. However, amd_brs_match_plm()
only validates the branch-to address against the requested privilege
levels. For branches from the kernel to user space, the branch-from
address is left unchecked and is leaked. Extend the software filter to
also validate the branch-from address, so that any branch record whose
branch-from address is in the kernel is dropped when
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is requested.

Fixes: 8910075d61a3 ("perf/x86/amd: Enable branch sampling priv level filtering")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
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>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f05931c4f89a146c364bd5dc6b8170b1ac611c65.1783701239.git.sandipan.das@amd.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260710110235.F3FD81F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/
---
 arch/x86/events/amd/brs.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/brs.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/brs.c
index 06f35a6..dc56468 100644
--- a/arch/x86/events/amd/brs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/brs.c
@@ -259,13 +259,13 @@ void amd_brs_disable_all(void)
 		amd_brs_disable();
 }
 
-static bool amd_brs_match_plm(struct perf_event *event, u64 to)
+static bool amd_brs_match_plm(struct perf_event *event, u64 from, u64 to)
 {
 	int type = event->attr.branch_sample_type;
 	int plm_k = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL | PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_HV;
 	int plm_u = PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER;
 
-	if (!(type & plm_k) && kernel_ip(to))
+	if (!(type & plm_k) && (kernel_ip(to) || kernel_ip(from)))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!(type & plm_u) && !kernel_ip(to))
@@ -338,11 +338,11 @@ void amd_brs_drain(void)
 		 */
 		to = (u64)(((s64)to << shift) >> shift);
 
-		if (!amd_brs_match_plm(event, to))
-			continue;
-
 		rdmsrq(brs_from(brs_idx), from);
 
+		if (!amd_brs_match_plm(event, from, to))
+			continue;
+
 		perf_clear_branch_entry_bitfields(br+nr);
 
 		br[nr].from = from;