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Commit dead9f29 authored by Alexei Starovoitov's avatar Alexei Starovoitov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Fix race in BPF program unregister



there is a race between perf_event_free_bpf_prog() and free_trace_kprobe():

	__free_event()
	  event->destroy(event)
	    tp_perf_event_destroy()
	      perf_trace_destroy()
		perf_trace_event_unreg()

which is dropping event->tp_event->perf_refcount and allows to proceed in:

	unregister_trace_kprobe()
	  unregister_kprobe_event()
	      trace_remove_event_call()
		    probe_remove_event_call()
	free_trace_kprobe()

while __free_event does:

	call_rcu(&event->rcu_head, free_event_rcu);
	  free_event_rcu()
	    perf_event_free_bpf_prog()

To fix the race simply move perf_event_free_bpf_prog() before
event->destroy(), since event->tp_event is still valid at that point.

Note, perf_trace_destroy() is not racing with trace_remove_event_call()
since they both grab event_mutex.

Reported-by: default avatarWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: lizefan@huawei.com
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Fixes: 2541517c ("tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431717321-28772-1-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent ba155e2d
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