From c127449944659543e5e2423002f08f0af98dba5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:57:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix race in perf_event_exec() I managed to tickle this warning: [ 2338.884942] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2338.890112] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 35162 at ../kernel/events/core.c:2702 task_ctx_sched_out+0x6b/0x80() [ 2338.900504] Modules linked in: [ 2338.903933] CPU: 13 PID: 35162 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4-dirty #244 [ 2338.911610] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600GZ/S2600GZ, BIOS SE5C600.86B.02.02.0002.122320131210 12/23/2013 [ 2338.923071] ffffffff81f1468e ffff8807c6457cb8 ffffffff815c680c 0000000000000000 [ 2338.931382] ffff8807c6457cf0 ffffffff810c8a56 ffffe8ffff8c1bd0 ffff8808132ed400 [ 2338.939678] 0000000000000286 ffff880813170380 ffff8808132ed400 ffff8807c6457d00 [ 2338.947987] Call Trace: [ 2338.950726] [] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 [ 2338.956474] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xc0 [ 2338.963195] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 2338.969720] [] task_ctx_sched_out+0x6b/0x80 [ 2338.976244] [] perf_event_exec+0xe2/0x180 [ 2338.982575] [] setup_new_exec+0x6f/0x1b0 [ 2338.988810] [] load_elf_binary+0x393/0x1660 [ 2338.995339] [] ? get_user_pages+0x52/0x60 [ 2339.001669] [] search_binary_handler+0x97/0x200 [ 2339.008581] [] do_execveat_common.isra.33+0x543/0x6e0 [ 2339.016072] [] SyS_execve+0x3a/0x50 [ 2339.021819] [] stub_execve+0x5/0x5 [ 2339.027469] [] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71 [ 2339.034860] ---[ end trace ee1337c59a0ddeac ]--- Which is a WARN_ON_ONCE() indicating that cpuctx->task_ctx is not what we expected it to be. This is because context switches can swap the task_struct::perf_event_ctxp[] pointer around. Therefore you have to either disable preemption when looking at current, or hold ctx->lock. Fix perf_event_enable_on_exec(), it loads current->perf_event_ctxp[] before disabling interrupts, therefore a preemption in the right place can swap contexts around and we're using the wrong one. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kostya Serebryany Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Sasha Levin Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: syzkaller Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151210195740.GG6357@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 39cf4a40aa4c..fd7de0418fbe 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -3154,15 +3154,16 @@ static int event_enable_on_exec(struct perf_event *event, * Enable all of a task's events that have been marked enable-on-exec. * This expects task == current. */ -static void perf_event_enable_on_exec(struct perf_event_context *ctx) +static void perf_event_enable_on_exec(int ctxn) { - struct perf_event_context *clone_ctx = NULL; + struct perf_event_context *ctx, *clone_ctx = NULL; struct perf_event *event; unsigned long flags; int enabled = 0; int ret; local_irq_save(flags); + ctx = current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]; if (!ctx || !ctx->nr_events) goto out; @@ -3205,17 +3206,11 @@ out: void perf_event_exec(void) { - struct perf_event_context *ctx; int ctxn; rcu_read_lock(); - for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) { - ctx = current->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]; - if (!ctx) - continue; - - perf_event_enable_on_exec(ctx); - } + for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) + perf_event_enable_on_exec(ctxn); rcu_read_unlock(); } -- 2.20.1