perf: Fix hotplug splat
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:06:12 +0000 (12:06 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 23:58:56 +0000 (00:58 +0100)
commit7b80b8d77f13e7d8a88179a208b839b31a9f667d
treedf13e1504d2705a9f6c1454b88dadf7ba7743b12
parent43e2f50d5845b7bc29e3ccf464144c66d2eab7da
perf: Fix hotplug splat

commit e3703f8cdfcf39c25c4338c3ad8e68891cca3731 upstream.

Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.

It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.

We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
kernel/events/core.c