[tip:perf/core] perf: Fix racy group access

From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 27 2015 - 07:47:22 EST


Commit-ID: ccd41c86ad4d464d0ed4e48d80759ff85c2115b0
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ccd41c86ad4d464d0ed4e48d80759ff85c2115b0
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:56:04 +0100
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:49:45 +0100

perf: Fix racy group access

While looking at some fuzzer output I noticed that we do not hold any
locks on leader->ctx and therefore the sibling_list iteration is
unsafe.

Acquire the relevant ctx->mutex before calling into the pmu specific
code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150225151639.GL5029@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index b01dfb6..bb1a7c3 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7036,12 +7036,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_pmu_unregister);

static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event)
{
+ struct perf_event_context *ctx = NULL;
int ret;

if (!try_module_get(pmu->module))
return -ENODEV;
+
+ if (event->group_leader != event) {
+ ctx = perf_event_ctx_lock(event->group_leader);
+ BUG_ON(!ctx);
+ }
+
event->pmu = pmu;
ret = pmu->event_init(event);
+
+ if (ctx)
+ perf_event_ctx_unlock(event->group_leader, ctx);
+
if (ret)
module_put(pmu->module);

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