Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 09:06:07 EST


On 03/06, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
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> and this is a failed fork().
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> However, inherited events don't have a filedesc to fput(), and
> similarly, a task that fails for has never been visible to attach a perf
> event to because it never hits the pid-hash.

Yes, it is not visible to find_task_by_vpid() until copy_process() does
attach_pid(PIDTYPE_PID), and copy_process() can't fail after that.

Oleg.