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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2010-11-09 19:01:43 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-11-18 13:18:46 +0100
commit8882135bcd332f294df5455747ea43ba9e6f77ad (patch)
tree758f26d26750fd5007e885cc28125f7c1fa24ca6 /kernel
parentfcf48a725a176ba12aa7be64c50190deaa2f86df (diff)
perf: Fix owner-list vs exit
Oleg noticed that a perf-fd keeping a reference on the creating task leads to a few funny side effects. There's two different aspects to this: - kernel based perf-events, these should not take out a reference on the creating task and appear on the task's event list since they're not bound to fds nor visible to userspace. - fork() and pthread_create(), these can lead to the creating task dying (and thus the task's event-list becomming useless) but keeping the list and ref alive until the event is closed. Combined they lead to malfunction of the ptrace hw_tracepoints. Cure this by not considering kernel based perf_events for the owner-list and destroying the owner-list when the owner dies. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1289576883.2084.286.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c63
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index f818d9d2dc9..671f6c8c8a3 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2235,11 +2235,6 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
- mutex_lock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex);
- list_del_init(&event->owner_entry);
- mutex_unlock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex);
- put_task_struct(event->owner);
-
free_event(event);
return 0;
@@ -2252,9 +2247,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel);
static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct perf_event *event = file->private_data;
+ struct task_struct *owner;
file->private_data = NULL;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ owner = ACCESS_ONCE(event->owner);
+ /*
+ * Matches the smp_wmb() in perf_event_exit_task(). If we observe
+ * !owner it means the list deletion is complete and we can indeed
+ * free this event, otherwise we need to serialize on
+ * owner->perf_event_mutex.
+ */
+ smp_read_barrier_depends();
+ if (owner) {
+ /*
+ * Since delayed_put_task_struct() also drops the last
+ * task reference we can safely take a new reference
+ * while holding the rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+ get_task_struct(owner);
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ if (owner) {
+ mutex_lock(&owner->perf_event_mutex);
+ /*
+ * We have to re-check the event->owner field, if it is cleared
+ * we raced with perf_event_exit_task(), acquiring the mutex
+ * ensured they're done, and we can proceed with freeing the
+ * event.
+ */
+ if (event->owner)
+ list_del_init(&event->owner_entry);
+ mutex_unlock(&owner->perf_event_mutex);
+ put_task_struct(owner);
+ }
+
return perf_event_release_kernel(event);
}
@@ -5678,7 +5707,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
event->owner = current;
- get_task_struct(current);
+
mutex_lock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, &current->perf_event_list);
mutex_unlock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
@@ -5746,12 +5775,6 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
++ctx->generation;
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
- event->owner = current;
- get_task_struct(current);
- mutex_lock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
- list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, &current->perf_event_list);
- mutex_unlock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
-
return event;
err_free:
@@ -5902,8 +5925,24 @@ again:
*/
void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child)
{
+ struct perf_event *event, *tmp;
int ctxn;
+ mutex_lock(&child->perf_event_mutex);
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &child->perf_event_list,
+ owner_entry) {
+ list_del_init(&event->owner_entry);
+
+ /*
+ * Ensure the list deletion is visible before we clear
+ * the owner, closes a race against perf_release() where
+ * we need to serialize on the owner->perf_event_mutex.
+ */
+ smp_wmb();
+ event->owner = NULL;
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&child->perf_event_mutex);
+
for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn)
perf_event_exit_task_context(child, ctxn);
}