From ebf905fc7a6e7c99c53b5afc888d8f950da90aff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:00:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context() While that mutex should guard the elements, it doesn't guard against the use-after-free that's from list_for_each_entry_rcu(). __perf_event_exit_task() can actually free the event. And because list addition/deletion is guarded by both ctx->mutex and ctx->lock, holding ctx->mutex is sufficient for reading the list, so we don't actually need the rcu list iteration. Fixes: 3a497f48637e ("perf: Simplify perf_event_exit_task_context()") Reported-by: Sasha Levin Tested-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Dave Jones Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140529170024.GA2315@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed