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<updated>2017-08-30T08:26:39Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix group {cpu,task} validation</title>
<updated>2017-08-30T08:26:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T14:41:38Z</published>
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commit 64aee2a965cf2954a038b5522f11d2cd2f0f8f3e upstream.

Regardless of which events form a group, it does not make sense for the
events to target different tasks and/or CPUs, as this leaves the group
inconsistent and impossible to schedule. The core perf code assumes that
these are consistent across (successfully intialised) groups.

Core perf code only verifies this when moving SW events into a HW
context. Thus, we can violate this requirement for pure SW groups and
pure HW groups, unless the relevant PMU driver happens to perform this
verification itself. These mismatched groups subsequently wreak havoc
elsewhere.

For example, we handle watchpoints as SW events, and reserve watchpoint
HW on a per-CPU basis at pmu::event_init() time to ensure that any event
that is initialised is guaranteed to have a slot at pmu::add() time.
However, the core code only checks the group leader's cpu filter (via
event_filter_match()), and can thus install follower events onto CPUs
violating thier (mismatched) CPU filters, potentially installing them
into a CPU without sufficient reserved slots.

This can be triggered with the below test case, resulting in warnings
from arch backends.

  #define _GNU_SOURCE
  #include &lt;linux/hw_breakpoint.h&gt;
  #include &lt;linux/perf_event.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sched.h&gt;
  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/prctl.h&gt;
  #include &lt;sys/syscall.h&gt;
  #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

  static int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *attr, pid_t pid, int cpu,
			   int group_fd, unsigned long flags)
  {
	return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open, attr, pid, cpu, group_fd, flags);
  }

  char watched_char;

  struct perf_event_attr wp_attr = {
	.type = PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT,
	.bp_type = HW_BREAKPOINT_RW,
	.bp_addr = (unsigned long)&amp;watched_char,
	.bp_len = 1,
	.size = sizeof(wp_attr),
  };

  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
  {
	int leader, ret;
	cpu_set_t cpus;

	/*
	 * Force use of CPU0 to ensure our CPU0-bound events get scheduled.
	 */
	CPU_ZERO(&amp;cpus);
	CPU_SET(0, &amp;cpus);
	ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpus), &amp;cpus);
	if (ret) {
		printf("Unable to set cpu affinity\n");
		return 1;
	}

	/* open leader event, bound to this task, CPU0 only */
	leader = perf_event_open(&amp;wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0);
	if (leader &lt; 0) {
		printf("Couldn't open leader: %d\n", leader);
		return 1;
	}

	/*
	 * Open a follower event that is bound to the same task, but a
	 * different CPU. This means that the group should never be possible to
	 * schedule.
	 */
	ret = perf_event_open(&amp;wp_attr, 0, 1, leader, 0);
	if (ret &lt; 0) {
		printf("Couldn't open mismatched follower: %d\n", ret);
		return 1;
	} else {
		printf("Opened leader/follower with mismastched CPUs\n");
	}

	/*
	 * Open as many independent events as we can, all bound to the same
	 * task, CPU0 only.
	 */
	do {
		ret = perf_event_open(&amp;wp_attr, 0, 0, -1, 0);
	} while (ret &gt;= 0);

	/*
	 * Force enable/disble all events to trigger the erronoeous
	 * installation of the follower event.
	 */
	printf("Opened all events. Toggling..\n");
	for (;;) {
		prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
		prctl(PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE, 0, 0, 0, 0);
	}

	return 0;
  }

Fix this by validating this requirement regardless of whether we're
moving events.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Zhou Chengming &lt;zhouchengming1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498142498-15758-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>perf/x86: Fix RDPMC vs. mm_struct tracking</title>
<updated>2017-08-25T00:15:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2017-08-02T17:39:30Z</published>
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commit bfe334924ccd9f4a53f30240c03cf2f43f5b2df1 upstream.

Vince reported the following rdpmc() testcase failure:

 &gt; Failing test case:
 &gt;
 &gt;	fd=perf_event_open();
 &gt;	addr=mmap(fd);
 &gt;	exec()  // without closing or unmapping the event
 &gt;	fd=perf_event_open();
 &gt;	addr=mmap(fd);
 &gt;	rdpmc()	// GPFs due to rdpmc being disabled

The problem is of course that exec() plays tricks with what is
current-&gt;mm, only destroying the old mappings after having
installed the new mm.

Fix this confusion by passing along vma-&gt;vm_mm instead of relying on
current-&gt;mm.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 1e0fb9ec679c ("perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802173930.cstykcqefmqt7jau@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Minor cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified"</title>
<updated>2017-07-27T22:10:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-11T08:56:54Z</published>
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commit 6a8a75f3235724c5941a33e287b2f98966ad14c5 upstream.

This reverts commit cc1582c231ea041fbc68861dfaf957eaf902b829.

This commit introduced a regression that broke rr-project, which uses sampling
events to receive a signal on overflow (but does not care about the contents
of the sample). These signals are critical to the correct operation of rr.

There's been some back and forth about how to fix it - but to not keep
applications in limbo queue up a revert.

Reported-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kyle Huey &lt;me@kylehuey.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Jin Yao &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170628105600.GC5981@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix scheduling regression of pinned groups</title>
<updated>2017-07-27T22:10:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Shishkin</name>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T11:08:34Z</published>
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commit 3bda69c1c3993a2bddbae01397d12bfef6054011 upstream.

Vince Weaver reported:

&gt; I was tracking down some regressions in my perf_event_test testsuite.
&gt; Some of the tests broke in the 4.11-rc1 timeframe.
&gt;
&gt; I've bisected one of them, this report is about
&gt;	tests/overflow/simul_oneshot_group_overflow
&gt; This test creates an event group containing two sampling events, set
&gt; to overflow to a signal handler (which disables and then refreshes the
&gt; event).
&gt;
&gt; On a good kernel you get the following:
&gt; 	Event perf::instructions with period 1000000
&gt; 	Event perf::instructions with period 2000000
&gt; 		fd 3 overflows: 946 (perf::instructions/1000000)
&gt; 		fd 4 overflows: 473 (perf::instructions/2000000)
&gt; 	Ending counts:
&gt; 		Count 0: 946379875
&gt; 		Count 1: 946365218
&gt;
&gt; With the broken kernels you get:
&gt; 	Event perf::instructions with period 1000000
&gt; 	Event perf::instructions with period 2000000
&gt; 		fd 3 overflows: 938 (perf::instructions/1000000)
&gt; 		fd 4 overflows: 318 (perf::instructions/2000000)
&gt; 	Ending counts:
&gt; 		Count 0: 946373080
&gt; 		Count 1: 653373058

The root cause of the bug is that the following commit:

  487f05e18a ("perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts")

erronously assumed that event's 'pinned' setting determines whether the
event belongs to a pinned group or not, but in fact, it's the group
leader's pinned state that matters.

This was discovered by Vince in the test case described above, where two instruction
counters are grouped, the group leader is pinned, but the other event is not;
in the regressed case the counters were off by 33% (the difference between events'
periods), but should be the same within the error margin.

Fix the problem by looking at the group leader's pinning.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Fixes: 487f05e18a ("perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87lgnmvw7h.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Drop kernel samples even though :u is specified</title>
<updated>2017-06-08T08:11:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jin Yao</name>
</author>
<published>2017-05-25T10:09:07Z</published>
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When doing sampling, for example:

  perf record -e cycles:u ...

On workloads that do a lot of kernel entry/exits we see kernel
samples, even though :u is specified. This is due to skid existing.

This might be a security issue because it can leak kernel addresses even
though kernel sampling support is disabled.

The patch drops the kernel samples if exclude_kernel is specified.

For example, test on Haswell desktop:

  perf record -e cycles:u &lt;mgen&gt;
  perf report --stdio

Before patch applied:

    99.77%  mgen     mgen              [.] buf_read
     0.20%  mgen     mgen              [.] rand_buf_init
     0.01%  mgen     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] apic_timer_interrupt
     0.00%  mgen     mgen              [.] last_free_elem
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so      [.] __random_r
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so      [.] _int_malloc
     0.00%  mgen     mgen              [.] rand_array_init
     0.00%  mgen     [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] page_fault
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so      [.] __random
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so      [.] __strcasestr
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so        [.] strcmp
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so        [.] _dl_start
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so      [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so        [.] _start

We can see kernel symbols apic_timer_interrupt and page_fault.

After patch applied:

    99.79%  mgen     mgen           [.] buf_read
     0.19%  mgen     mgen           [.] rand_buf_init
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] __random_r
     0.00%  mgen     mgen           [.] rand_array_init
     0.00%  mgen     mgen           [.] last_free_elem
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] vfprintf
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] rand
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] __random
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] _int_malloc
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] _IO_doallocbuf
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so     [.] do_lookup_x
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so     [.] open_verify.constprop.7
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so     [.] _dl_important_hwcaps
     0.00%  mgen     libc-2.23.so   [.] sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4
     0.00%  mgen     ld-2.23.so     [.] _start

There are only userspace symbols.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao &lt;yao.jin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: yao.jin@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495706947-3744-1-git-send-email-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2017-03-28T05:44:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-28T05:44:25Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Better explain the inherit magic</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T13:16:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-16T12:47:51Z</published>
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While going through the event inheritance code Oleg got confused.

Add some comments to better explain the silent dissapearance of
orphaned events.

So what happens is that at perf_event_release_kernel() time; when an
event looses its connection to userspace (and ceases to exist from the
user's perspective) we can still have an arbitrary amount of inherited
copies of the event. We want to synchronously find and remove all
these child events.

Since that requires a bit of lock juggling, there is the possibility
that concurrent clone()s will create new child events. Therefore we
first mark the parent event as DEAD, which marks all the extant child
events as orphaned.

We then avoid copying orphaned events; in order to avoid getting more
of them.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.289567442@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Simplify perf_event_free_task()</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T13:16:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-16T12:47:50Z</published>
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We have ctx-&gt;event_list that contains all events; no need to
repeatedly iterate the group lists to find them all.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.239678244@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork()</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T13:16:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-16T12:47:49Z</published>
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While hunting for clues to a use-after-free, Oleg spotted that
perf_event_init_context() can loose an error value with the result
that fork() can succeed even though we did not fully inherit the perf
event context.

Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 889ff0150661 ("perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.190342547@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix use-after-free in perf_release()</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T13:16:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
</author>
<published>2017-03-16T12:47:48Z</published>
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Dmitry reported syzcaller tripped a use-after-free in perf_release().

After much puzzlement Oleg spotted the below scenario:

  Task1                           Task2

  fork()
    perf_event_init_task()
    /* ... */
    goto bad_fork_$foo;
    /* ... */
    perf_event_free_task()
      mutex_lock(ctx-&gt;lock)
      perf_free_event(B)

                                  perf_event_release_kernel(A)
                                    mutex_lock(A-&gt;child_mutex)
                                    list_for_each_entry(child, ...) {
                                      /* child == B */
                                      ctx = B-&gt;ctx;
                                      get_ctx(ctx);
                                      mutex_unlock(A-&gt;child_mutex);

        mutex_lock(A-&gt;child_mutex)
        list_del_init(B-&gt;child_list)
        mutex_unlock(A-&gt;child_mutex)

        /* ... */

      mutex_unlock(ctx-&gt;lock);
      put_ctx() /* &gt;0 */
    free_task();
                                      mutex_lock(ctx-&gt;lock);
                                      mutex_lock(A-&gt;child_mutex);
                                      /* ... */
                                      mutex_unlock(A-&gt;child_mutex);
                                      mutex_unlock(ctx-&gt;lock)
                                      put_ctx() /* 0 */
                                        ctx-&gt;task &amp;&amp; !TOMBSTONE
                                          put_task_struct() /* UAF */

This patch closes the hole by making perf_event_free_task() destroy the
task &lt;-&gt; ctx relation such that perf_event_release_kernel() will no longer
observe the now dead task.

Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c6e5b73242d2 ("perf: Synchronously clean up child events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170314155949.GE32474@worktop
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.140295131@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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