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author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2013-05-28 08:55:48 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-05-28 09:05:08 (GMT) |
commit | 26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246 (patch) | |
tree | 559c0a9778e7aa6639a24d9a7951879dc65d0551 /arch/c6x/Kconfig | |
parent | 7b959fc582741227a1c4cba710d6aff8fb183128 (diff) | |
download | linux-26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246.tar.xz |
perf: Fix perf mmap bugs
Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity
fuzzer.
Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap():
- it has issues against fork() since we use vma->vm_mm for accounting.
- it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap().
We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't
think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear
about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to
work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work.
Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example
prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of
perf_event_set_output().
This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with
one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per
event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own
accounting.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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