perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()
authorCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:27:20 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:52:22 +0000 (14:52 -0700)
commit77eeda2a01c46598857a5f128ed1e0158ec6e6c4
tree8ffdeeac7b5c95d64a7160971034a87ff700ce68
parentdef258584a2986b46659552cbd4b4b555be43042
perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()

commit 3577af70a2ce4853d58e57d832e687d739281479 upstream.

We saw a kernel soft lockup in perf_remove_from_context(),
it looks like the `perf` process, when exiting, could not go
out of the retry loop. Meanwhile, the target process was forking
a child. So either the target process should execute the smp
function call to deactive the event (if it was running) or it should
do a context switch which deactives the event.

It seems we optimize out a context switch in perf_event_context_sched_out(),
and what's more important, we still test an obsolete task pointer when
retrying, so no one actually would deactive that event in this situation.
Fix it directly by reloading the task pointer in perf_remove_from_context().

This should cure the above soft lockup.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409696840-843-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/events/core.c