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Commit 9c2b9d30 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Fix perf bug in fork()



Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by
calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet
have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and
'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent
process.

This is bad and might explain some outstanding fuzzer failures ...

Suggested-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSylvain 'ythier' Hitier <sylvain.hitier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140929101201.GE5430@worktop


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 211de6eb
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