From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:22:07 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc3~68^2~11
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbe08d82ce3967ccdf459f7951d02589cf967300;p=pandora-kernel.git

perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race

find_get_context() must not install the new perf_event_context
if the task has already passed perf_event_exit_task().

If nothing else, this means the memory leak. Initially
ctx->refcount == 2, it is supposed that
perf_event_exit_task_context() should participate and do the
necessary put_ctx().

find_lively_task_by_vpid() checks PF_EXITING but this buys
nothing, by the time we call find_get_context() this task can be
already dead. To the point, cmpxchg() can succeed when the task
has already done the last schedule().

Change find_get_context() to populate task->perf_event_ctxp[]
under task->perf_event_mutex, this way we can trust PF_EXITING
because perf_event_exit_task() takes the same mutex.

Also, change perf_event_exit_task_context() to use
rcu_dereference(). Probably this is not strictly needed, but
with or without this change find_get_context() can race with
setup_new_exec()->perf_event_exit_task(), rcu_dereference()
looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110119182207.GB12183@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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