kernel_optimize_test/kernel/events
Jiri Olsa 2aeb188354 perf/core: Fix locking for children siblings group read
We're missing ctx lock when iterating children siblings
within the perf_read path for group reading. Following
race and crash can happen:

User space doing read syscall on event group leader:

T1:
  perf_read
    lock event->ctx->mutex
    perf_read_group
      lock leader->child_mutex
      __perf_read_group_add(child)
        list_for_each_entry(sub, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry)

---->   sub might be invalid at this point, because it could
        get removed via perf_event_exit_task_context in T2

Child exiting and cleaning up its events:

T2:
  perf_event_exit_task_context
    lock ctx->mutex
    list_for_each_entry_safe(child_event, next, &child_ctx->event_list,...
      perf_event_exit_event(child)
        lock ctx->lock
        perf_group_detach(child)
        unlock ctx->lock

---->   child is removed from sibling_list without any sync
        with T1 path above

        ...
        free_event(child)

Before the child is removed from the leader's child_list,
(and thus is omitted from perf_read_group processing), we
need to ensure that perf_read_group touches child's
siblings under its ctx->lock.

Peter further notes:

| One additional note; this bug got exposed by commit:
|
|   ba5213ae6b ("perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP")
|
| which made it possible to actually trigger this code-path.

Tested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: ba5213ae6b ("perf/core: Correct event creation with PERF_FORMAT_GROUP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170720141455.2106-1-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-21 09:54:23 +02:00
..
callchain.c perf/callchain: Force USER_DS when invoking perf_callchain_user() 2017-05-10 07:54:00 +02:00
core.c perf/core: Fix locking for children siblings group read 2017-07-21 09:54:23 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c
internal.h bpf, events: fix offset in skb copy handler 2016-07-25 10:34:11 -07:00
Makefile
ring_buffer.c perf/aux: Correct return code of rb_alloc_aux() if !has_aux(ev) 2017-06-21 11:58:30 +02:00
uprobes.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/coredump.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00