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: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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