From fddac5ed7699cbf4828f7493d4995e739d6fe6a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:17:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perf: fix perf bug in fork() commit 6c72e3501d0d62fc064d3680e5234f3463ec5a86 upstream. Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and 'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent process. This is bad.. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 3a140ca..4ced342f 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7836,8 +7836,10 @@ int perf_event_init_task(struct task_struct *child) for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) { ret = perf_event_init_context(child, ctxn); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + perf_event_free_task(child); return ret; + } } return 0; diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index c44bff8..9e643f8 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; retval = audit_alloc(p); if (retval) - goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; + goto bad_fork_cleanup_perf; /* copy all the process information */ retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p); if (retval) @@ -1522,8 +1522,9 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo: exit_sem(p); bad_fork_cleanup_audit: audit_free(p); -bad_fork_cleanup_policy: +bad_fork_cleanup_perf: perf_event_free_task(p); +bad_fork_cleanup_policy: #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA mpol_put(p->mempolicy); bad_fork_cleanup_cgroup: -- 2.7.4