[GIT PULL] perf fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 19 2014 - 06:46:25 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 3577af70a2ce4853d58e57d832e687d739281479 perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()

Two kernel side fixes: a kprobes fix and a
perf_remove_from_context() fix (which does
not yet fix the migration bug which is WIP).

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Cong Wang (1):
perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()

Wang Nan (1):
kprobes/x86: Free 'optinsn' cache when range check fails


arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c | 4 +++-
kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
index f304773285ae..f1314d0bcf0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
@@ -338,8 +338,10 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op)
* a relative jump.
*/
rel = (long)op->optinsn.insn - (long)op->kp.addr + RELATIVEJUMP_SIZE;
- if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff)
+ if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff) {
+ __arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op, 0);
return -ERANGE;
+ }

buf = (u8 *)op->optinsn.insn;

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f9c1ed002dbc..d640a8b4dcbc 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1524,6 +1524,11 @@ static void perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event, bool detach_group
*/
if (ctx->is_active) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+ /*
+ * Reload the task pointer, it might have been changed by
+ * a concurrent perf_event_context_sched_out().
+ */
+ task = ctx->task;
goto retry;
}

@@ -1967,6 +1972,11 @@ perf_install_in_context(struct perf_event_context *ctx,
*/
if (ctx->is_active) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
+ /*
+ * Reload the task pointer, it might have been changed by
+ * a concurrent perf_event_context_sched_out().
+ */
+ task = ctx->task;
goto retry;
}

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