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 21:54:14 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
commita63607b953785b32fad97f621b90df882d177ea3
tree4f5b567f7f07303c576de2c068af3a07240f8bdd
parent3c47864204b4df3e0d506c5a53cc7f1111467411
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