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-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c47
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c15
2 files changed, 48 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index a7b8c1c75fa7..9fc3be0c7d01 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2496,11 +2496,11 @@ static int __perf_event_stop(void *info)
return 0;
}
-static int perf_event_restart(struct perf_event *event)
+static int perf_event_stop(struct perf_event *event, int restart)
{
struct stop_event_data sd = {
.event = event,
- .restart = 1,
+ .restart = restart,
};
int ret = 0;
@@ -3549,10 +3549,18 @@ static int perf_event_read(struct perf_event *event, bool group)
.group = group,
.ret = 0,
};
- ret = smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1);
- /* The event must have been read from an online CPU: */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
- ret = ret ? : data.ret;
+ /*
+ * Purposely ignore the smp_call_function_single() return
+ * value.
+ *
+ * If event->oncpu isn't a valid CPU it means the event got
+ * scheduled out and that will have updated the event count.
+ *
+ * Therefore, either way, we'll have an up-to-date event count
+ * after this.
+ */
+ (void)smp_call_function_single(event->oncpu, __perf_event_read, &data, 1);
+ ret = data.ret;
} else if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_INACTIVE) {
struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -4837,6 +4845,19 @@ static void ring_buffer_attach(struct perf_event *event,
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rb->event_lock, flags);
}
+ /*
+ * Avoid racing with perf_mmap_close(AUX): stop the event
+ * before swizzling the event::rb pointer; if it's getting
+ * unmapped, its aux_mmap_count will be 0 and it won't
+ * restart. See the comment in __perf_pmu_output_stop().
+ *
+ * Data will inevitably be lost when set_output is done in
+ * mid-air, but then again, whoever does it like this is
+ * not in for the data anyway.
+ */
+ if (has_aux(event))
+ perf_event_stop(event, 0);
+
rcu_assign_pointer(event->rb, rb);
if (old_rb) {
@@ -6112,7 +6133,7 @@ static void perf_event_addr_filters_exec(struct perf_event *event, void *data)
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ifh->lock, flags);
if (restart)
- perf_event_restart(event);
+ perf_event_stop(event, 1);
}
void perf_event_exec(void)
@@ -6156,7 +6177,13 @@ static void __perf_event_output_stop(struct perf_event *event, void *data)
/*
* In case of inheritance, it will be the parent that links to the
- * ring-buffer, but it will be the child that's actually using it:
+ * ring-buffer, but it will be the child that's actually using it.
+ *
+ * We are using event::rb to determine if the event should be stopped,
+ * however this may race with ring_buffer_attach() (through set_output),
+ * which will make us skip the event that actually needs to be stopped.
+ * So ring_buffer_attach() has to stop an aux event before re-assigning
+ * its rb pointer.
*/
if (rcu_dereference(parent->rb) == rb)
ro->err = __perf_event_stop(&sd);
@@ -6670,7 +6697,7 @@ static void __perf_addr_filters_adjust(struct perf_event *event, void *data)
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ifh->lock, flags);
if (restart)
- perf_event_restart(event);
+ perf_event_stop(event, 1);
}
/*
@@ -7933,7 +7960,7 @@ static void perf_event_addr_filters_apply(struct perf_event *event)
mmput(mm);
restart:
- perf_event_restart(event);
+ perf_event_stop(event, 1);
}
/*
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index ae9b90dc9a5a..257fa460b846 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -330,15 +330,22 @@ void *perf_aux_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
if (!rb)
return NULL;
- if (!rb_has_aux(rb) || !atomic_inc_not_zero(&rb->aux_refcount))
+ if (!rb_has_aux(rb))
goto err;
/*
- * If rb::aux_mmap_count is zero (and rb_has_aux() above went through),
- * the aux buffer is in perf_mmap_close(), about to get freed.
+ * If aux_mmap_count is zero, the aux buffer is in perf_mmap_close(),
+ * about to get freed, so we leave immediately.
+ *
+ * Checking rb::aux_mmap_count and rb::refcount has to be done in
+ * the same order, see perf_mmap_close. Otherwise we end up freeing
+ * aux pages in this path, which is a bug, because in_atomic().
*/
if (!atomic_read(&rb->aux_mmap_count))
- goto err_put;
+ goto err;
+
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&rb->aux_refcount))
+ goto err;
/*
* Nesting is not supported for AUX area, make sure nested