Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753015AbaKAWpv (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:45:51 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:60261 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751736AbaKAWjb (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:39:31 -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, "Oleg Nesterov" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier" , "Peter Zijlstra" Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:28:03 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 076/102] perf: fix perf bug in fork() 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: Peter Zijlstra commit 6c72e3501d0d62fc064d3680e5234f3463ec5a86 upstream. Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and 'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent process. This is bad.. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 +++- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7081,8 +7081,10 @@ int perf_event_init_task(struct task_str for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) { ret = perf_event_init_context(child, ctxn); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + perf_event_free_task(child); return ret; + } } return 0; --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; retval = audit_alloc(p); if (retval) - goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; + goto bad_fork_cleanup_perf; /* copy all the process information */ retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p); if (retval) @@ -1406,8 +1406,9 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo: exit_sem(p); bad_fork_cleanup_audit: audit_free(p); -bad_fork_cleanup_policy: +bad_fork_cleanup_perf: perf_event_free_task(p); +bad_fork_cleanup_policy: #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA mpol_put(p->mempolicy); bad_fork_cleanup_cgroup: -- 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/