From 8882135bcd332f294df5455747ea43ba9e6f77ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 19:01:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix owner-list vs exit Oleg noticed that a perf-fd keeping a reference on the creating task leads to a few funny side effects. There's two different aspects to this: - kernel based perf-events, these should not take out a reference on the creating task and appear on the task's event list since they're not bound to fds nor visible to userspace. - fork() and pthread_create(), these can lead to the creating task dying (and thus the task's event-list becomming useless) but keeping the list and ref alive until the event is closed. Combined they lead to malfunction of the ptrace hw_tracepoints. Cure this by not considering kernel based perf_events for the owner-list and destroying the owner-list when the owner dies. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov LKML-Reference: <1289576883.2084.286.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_event.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index f818d9d2dc93..671f6c8c8a32 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -2235,11 +2235,6 @@ int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event) raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock); mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); - mutex_lock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex); - list_del_init(&event->owner_entry); - mutex_unlock(&event->owner->perf_event_mutex); - put_task_struct(event->owner); - free_event(event); return 0; @@ -2252,9 +2247,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel); static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { struct perf_event *event = file->private_data; + struct task_struct *owner; file->private_data = NULL; + rcu_read_lock(); + owner = ACCESS_ONCE(event->owner); + /* + * Matches the smp_wmb() in perf_event_exit_task(). If we observe + * !owner it means the list deletion is complete and we can indeed + * free this event, otherwise we need to serialize on + * owner->perf_event_mutex. + */ + smp_read_barrier_depends(); + if (owner) { + /* + * Since delayed_put_task_struct() also drops the last + * task reference we can safely take a new reference + * while holding the rcu_read_lock(). + */ + get_task_struct(owner); + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + + if (owner) { + mutex_lock(&owner->perf_event_mutex); + /* + * We have to re-check the event->owner field, if it is cleared + * we raced with perf_event_exit_task(), acquiring the mutex + * ensured they're done, and we can proceed with freeing the + * event. + */ + if (event->owner) + list_del_init(&event->owner_entry); + mutex_unlock(&owner->perf_event_mutex); + put_task_struct(owner); + } + return perf_event_release_kernel(event); } @@ -5678,7 +5707,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); event->owner = current; - get_task_struct(current); + mutex_lock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, ¤t->perf_event_list); mutex_unlock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); @@ -5746,12 +5775,6 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, ++ctx->generation; mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex); - event->owner = current; - get_task_struct(current); - mutex_lock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); - list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, ¤t->perf_event_list); - mutex_unlock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); - return event; err_free: @@ -5902,8 +5925,24 @@ again: */ void perf_event_exit_task(struct task_struct *child) { + struct perf_event *event, *tmp; int ctxn; + mutex_lock(&child->perf_event_mutex); + list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &child->perf_event_list, + owner_entry) { + list_del_init(&event->owner_entry); + + /* + * Ensure the list deletion is visible before we clear + * the owner, closes a race against perf_release() where + * we need to serialize on the owner->perf_event_mutex. + */ + smp_wmb(); + event->owner = NULL; + } + mutex_unlock(&child->perf_event_mutex); + for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) perf_event_exit_task_context(child, ctxn); } -- 2.20.1