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: Peter 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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