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authorSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>2012-06-14 15:31:09 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-06-18 11:45:57 +0200
commit9c5da09d266ca9b32eb16cf940f8161d949c2fe5 (patch)
treed5a8cc3e83ca92431fbb1235b068c9deb2c03c41 /kernel/events
parent8ed9eac4769407a8f0b93e381a3bc3ae81fa014b (diff)
downloadlinux-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.c10
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