if (event->destroy)
event->destroy(event);
- if (event->ctx)
- put_ctx(event->ctx);
-
+ /*
+ * Must be after ->destroy(), due to uprobe_perf_close() using
+ * hw.target.
+ */
if (event->hw.target)
put_task_struct(event->hw.target);
+ /*
+ * perf_event_free_task() relies on put_ctx() being 'last', in particular
+ * all task references must be cleaned up.
+ */
+ if (event->ctx)
+ put_ctx(event->ctx);
+
exclusive_event_destroy(event);
module_put(event->pmu->module);
mutex_unlock(&event->child_mutex);
list_for_each_entry_safe(child, tmp, &free_list, child_list) {
+ void *var = &child->ctx->refcount;
+
list_del(&child->child_list);
free_event(child);
+
+ /*
+ * Wake any perf_event_free_task() waiting for this event to be
+ * freed.
+ */
+ smp_mb(); /* pairs with wait_var_event() */
+ wake_up_var(var);
}
no_ctx:
}
/*
- * Free an unexposed, unused context as created by inheritance by
- * perf_event_init_task below, used by fork() in case of fail.
+ * Free a context as created by inheritance by perf_event_init_task() below,
+ * used by fork() in case of fail.
*
- * Not all locks are strictly required, but take them anyway to be nice and
- * help out with the lockdep assertions.
+ * Even though the task has never lived, the context and events have been
+ * exposed through the child_list, so we must take care tearing it all down.
*/
void perf_event_free_task(struct task_struct *task)
{
perf_free_event(event, ctx);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
- put_ctx(ctx);
+
+ /*
+ * perf_event_release_kernel() could've stolen some of our
+ * child events and still have them on its free_list. In that
+ * case we must wait for these events to have been freed (in
+ * particular all their references to this task must've been
+ * dropped).
+ *
+ * Without this copy_process() will unconditionally free this
+ * task (irrespective of its reference count) and
+ * _free_event()'s put_task_struct(event->hw.target) will be a
+ * use-after-free.
+ *
+ * Wait for all events to drop their context reference.
+ */
+ wait_var_event(&ctx->refcount, atomic_read(&ctx->refcount) == 1);
+ put_ctx(ctx); /* must be last */
}
}