Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752670AbaKAWl0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:41:26 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:60316 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751781AbaKAWjd (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:39:33 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Peter Zijlstra" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" , "Cong Wang" , "Paul Mackerras" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Cong Wang" Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:28:03 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 033/102] perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.64-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Cong Wang commit 3577af70a2ce4853d58e57d832e687d739281479 upstream. We saw a kernel soft lockup in perf_remove_from_context(), it looks like the `perf` process, when exiting, could not go out of the retry loop. Meanwhile, the target process was forking a child. So either the target process should execute the smp function call to deactive the event (if it was running) or it should do a context switch which deactives the event. It seems we optimize out a context switch in perf_event_context_sched_out(), and what's more important, we still test an obsolete task pointer when retrying, so no one actually would deactive that event in this situation. Fix it directly by reloading the task pointer in perf_remove_from_context(). This should cure the above soft lockup. Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409696840-843-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -1683,6 +1683,16 @@ retry: */ 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; + /* + * Reload the task pointer, it might have been changed by + * a concurrent perf_event_context_sched_out(). + */ + task = ctx->task; goto retry; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/