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author | Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> | 2012-06-14 15:31:09 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-06-18 11:45:57 +0200 |
commit | 9c5da09d266ca9b32eb16cf940f8161d949c2fe5 (patch) | |
tree | d5a8cc3e83ca92431fbb1235b068c9deb2c03c41 /kernel/events | |
parent | 8ed9eac4769407a8f0b93e381a3bc3ae81fa014b (diff) | |
download | linux-9c5da09d266ca9b32eb16cf940f8161d949c2fe5.tar.bz2 |
perf: Use css_tryget() to avoid propping up css refcount
An rmdir pushes css's ref count to zero. However, if the associated
directory is open at the time, the dentry ref count is non-zero. If
the fd for this directory is then passed into perf_event_open, it
does a css_get(). This bounces the ref count back up from zero. This
is a problem by itself. But what makes it turn into a crash is the
fact that we end up doing an extra dput, since we perform a dput
when css_put sees the ref count go down to zero.
css_tryget() does not fall into that trap. So, we use that instead.
Reproduction test-case for the bug:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP (1U << 2)
int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr,
pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) {
return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open,hw_event_uptr, pid, cpu,
group_fd, flags);
}
/*
* Directly poke at the perf_event bug, since it's proving hard to repro
* depending on where in the kernel tree. what moved?
*/
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int fd;
struct perf_event_attr attr;
memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
attr.exclude_kernel = 1;
attr.size = sizeof(attr);
mkdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", 0777);
fd = open("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", O_RDONLY);
perror("open");
rmdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah");
sleep(2);
perf_event_open(&attr, fd, 0, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
perror("perf_event_open");
close(fd);
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120614223108.1025.2503.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index f85c0154b333..d7d71d6ec972 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -253,9 +253,9 @@ perf_cgroup_match(struct perf_event *event) return !event->cgrp || event->cgrp == cpuctx->cgrp; } -static inline void perf_get_cgroup(struct perf_event *event) +static inline bool perf_tryget_cgroup(struct perf_event *event) { - css_get(&event->cgrp->css); + return css_tryget(&event->cgrp->css); } static inline void perf_put_cgroup(struct perf_event *event) @@ -484,7 +484,11 @@ static inline int perf_cgroup_connect(int fd, struct perf_event *event, event->cgrp = cgrp; /* must be done before we fput() the file */ - perf_get_cgroup(event); + if (!perf_tryget_cgroup(event)) { + event->cgrp = NULL; + ret = -ENOENT; + goto out; + } /* * all events in a group must monitor |