perf: Fix find_get_context() vs perf_event_exit_task() race

find_get_context() must not install the new perf_event_context
if the task has already passed perf_event_exit_task().

If nothing else, this means the memory leak. Initially
ctx->refcount == 2, it is supposed that
perf_event_exit_task_context() should participate and do the
necessary put_ctx().

find_lively_task_by_vpid() checks PF_EXITING but this buys
nothing, by the time we call find_get_context() this task can be
already dead. To the point, cmpxchg() can succeed when the task
has already done the last schedule().

Change find_get_context() to populate task->perf_event_ctxp[]
under task->perf_event_mutex, this way we can trust PF_EXITING
because perf_event_exit_task() takes the same mutex.

Also, change perf_event_exit_task_context() to use
rcu_dereference(). Probably this is not strictly needed, but
with or without this change find_get_context() can race with
setup_new_exec()->perf_event_exit_task(), rcu_dereference()
looks better.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110119182207.GB12183@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 84522c79698..4ec55ef5810 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2201,13 +2201,6 @@ find_lively_task_by_vpid(pid_t vpid)
 	if (!task)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
 
-	/*
-	 * Can't attach events to a dying task.
-	 */
-	err = -ESRCH;
-	if (task->flags & PF_EXITING)
-		goto errout;
-
 	/* Reuse ptrace permission checks for now. */
 	err = -EACCES;
 	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
@@ -2268,14 +2261,27 @@ retry:
 
 		get_ctx(ctx);
 
-		if (cmpxchg(&task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], NULL, ctx)) {
-			/*
-			 * We raced with some other task; use
-			 * the context they set.
-			 */
+		err = 0;
+		mutex_lock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
+		/*
+		 * If it has already passed perf_event_exit_task().
+		 * we must see PF_EXITING, it takes this mutex too.
+		 */
+		if (task->flags & PF_EXITING)
+			err = -ESRCH;
+		else if (task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])
+			err = -EAGAIN;
+		else
+			rcu_assign_pointer(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn], ctx);
+		mutex_unlock(&task->perf_event_mutex);
+
+		if (unlikely(err)) {
 			put_task_struct(task);
 			kfree(ctx);
-			goto retry;
+
+			if (err == -EAGAIN)
+				goto retry;
+			goto errout;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -6127,7 +6133,7 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 	 * scheduled, so we are now safe from rescheduling changing
 	 * our context.
 	 */
-	child_ctx = child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn];
+	child_ctx = rcu_dereference(child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
 	task_ctx_sched_out(child_ctx, EVENT_ALL);
 
 	/*