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Commit 63b6da39 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Fix perf_event_exit_task() race



There is a race against perf_event_exit_task() vs
event_function_call(),find_get_context(),perf_install_in_context()
(iow, everyone).

Since there is no permanent marker on a context that its dead, it is
quite possible that we access (and even modify) a context after its
passed through perf_event_exit_task().

For instance, find_get_context() might find the context still
installed, but by the time we get to perf_install_in_context() it
might already have passed through perf_event_exit_task() and be
considered dead, we will however still add the event to it.

Solve this by marking a ctx dead by setting its ctx->task value to -1,
it must be !0 so we still know its a (former) task context.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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