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Commit 84c4e620 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Close install vs. exit race



Consider the following scenario:

  CPU0					CPU1

  ctx = find_get_ctx();
					perf_event_exit_task_context()
  mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
  perf_install_in_context(ctx, ...);
    /* NO-OP */
  mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);

  ...

  perf_release()
    WARN_ON_ONCE(event->state != STATE_EXIT);

Since the event doesn't pass through perf_remove_from_context()
because perf_install_in_context() NO-OPs because the ctx is dead, and
perf_event_exit_task_context() will not observe the event because its
not attached yet, the event->state will not be set.

Solve this by revalidating ctx->task after we acquire ctx->mutex and
failing the event creation as a whole.

Tested-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dvyukov@google.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: panand@redhat.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Cc: vince@deater.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160224174947.626853419@infradead.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 6dc390ad
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