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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2011-01-19 18:22:07 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-01-19 19:04:27 (GMT) |
commit | dbe08d82ce3967ccdf459f7951d02589cf967300 (patch) | |
tree | 2f8fc95749e47ff0de4b369f298898e4db5ad391 /kernel | |
parent | c56eb8fb6dccb83d9fe62fd4dc00c834de9bc470 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-dbe08d82ce3967ccdf459f7951d02589cf967300.tar.xz |
perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race
find_get_context() must not install the new perf_event_context
if the task has already passed perf_event_exit_task().
If nothing else, this means the memory leak. Initially
ctx->refcount == 2, it is supposed that
perf_event_exit_task_context() should participate and do the
necessary put_ctx().
find_lively_task_by_vpid() checks PF_EXITING but this buys
nothing, by the time we call find_get_context() this task can be
already dead. To the point, cmpxchg() can succeed when the task
has already done the last schedule().
Change find_get_context() to populate task->perf_event_ctxp[]
under task->perf_event_mutex, this way we can trust PF_EXITING
because perf_event_exit_task() takes the same mutex.
Also, change perf_event_exit_task_context() to use
rcu_dereference(). Probably this is not strictly needed, but
with or without this change find_get_context() can race with
setup_new_exec()->perf_event_exit_task(), rcu_dereference()
looks better.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110119182207.GB12183@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_event.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index 84522c7..4ec55ef 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -2201,13 +2201,6 @@ find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid_t vpid) if (!task) return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); - /* - * Can't attach events to a dying task. - */ - err = -ESRCH; - if (task->flags & PF_EXITING) - goto errout; - /* Reuse ptrace permission checks for now. */ err = -EACCES; if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) @@ -2268,14 +2261,27 @@ retry: get_ctx(ctx); - if (cmpxchg(&task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], NULL, ctx)) { - /* - * We raced with some other task; use - * the context they set. - */ + err = 0; + mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex); + /* + * If it has already passed perf_event_exit_task(). + * we must see PF_EXITING, it takes this mutex too. + */ + if (task->flags & PF_EXITING) + err = -ESRCH; + else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]) + err = -EAGAIN; + else + rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx); + mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex); + + if (unlikely(err)) { put_task_struct(task); kfree(ctx); - goto retry; + + if (err == -EAGAIN) + goto retry; + goto errout; } } @@ -6127,7 +6133,7 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) * scheduled, so we are now safe from rescheduling changing * our context. */ - child_ctx = child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]; + child_ctx = rcu_dereference(child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]); task_ctx_sched_out(child_ctx, EVENT_ALL); /* |