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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2011-01-17 13:45:37 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-18 15:10:35 +0100
commitc5ed5145591774bd9a2960ba4ca45a02fc70aad1 (patch)
treef7e53164a33e1a0a41a4b3a7b508835361e39689 /kernel
parentad7f4e3f7b966ac09c8f98dbc5024813a1685775 (diff)
downloadlinux-c5ed5145591774bd9a2960ba4ca45a02fc70aad1.tar.bz2
perf: Fix contexted inheritance
Linus reported that the RCU lockdep annotation bits triggered for this rcu_dereference() because we're not holding rcu_read_lock(). Going over the code I cannot convince myself its correct: - holding a ref on the parent_ctx, doesn't avoid it being uncloned concurrently (as the comment says), so we can race with a free. - holding parent_ctx->mutex doesn't avoid the above free from taking place either, it would at best avoid parent_ctx from being freed. I.e. the warning is correct. To fix the bug, serialize against the unclone_ctx() call by extending the reach of the parent_ctx->lock. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/perf_event.c11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index b782b7a79f00..76be4c7bf08e 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -6494,7 +6494,6 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
parent_ctx->rotate_disable = 0;
- raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
child_ctx = child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn];
@@ -6502,12 +6501,11 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
/*
* Mark the child context as a clone of the parent
* context, or of whatever the parent is a clone of.
- * Note that if the parent is a clone, it could get
- * uncloned at any point, but that doesn't matter
- * because the list of events and the generation
- * count can't have changed since we took the mutex.
+ *
+ * Note that if the parent is a clone, the holding of
+ * parent_ctx->lock avoids it from being uncloned.
*/
- cloned_ctx = rcu_dereference(parent_ctx->parent_ctx);
+ cloned_ctx = parent_ctx->parent_ctx;
if (cloned_ctx) {
child_ctx->parent_ctx = cloned_ctx;
child_ctx->parent_gen = parent_ctx->parent_gen;
@@ -6518,6 +6516,7 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
get_ctx(child_ctx->parent_ctx);
}
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
perf_unpin_context(parent_ctx);