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Commit 9511bce9 authored by Song Liu's avatar Song Liu Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/core: Fix bad use of igrab()



As Miklos reported and suggested:

 "This pattern repeats two times in trace_uprobe.c and in
  kernel/events/core.c as well:

      ret = kern_path(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
      if (ret)
          goto fail_address_parse;

      inode = igrab(d_inode(path.dentry));
      path_put(&path);

  And it's wrong.  You can only hold a reference to the inode if you
  have an active ref to the superblock as well (which is normally
  through path.mnt) or holding s_umount.

  This way unmounting the containing filesystem while the tracepoint is
  active will give you the "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount..." message
  and a crash when the inode is finally put.

  Solution: store path instead of inode."

This patch fixes the issue in kernel/event/core.c.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: 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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: 375637bc

 ("perf/core: Introduce address range filtering")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418062907.3210386-2-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent a1150c20
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