Donate to e Foundation | Murena handsets with /e/OS | Own a part of Murena! Learn more

Skip to content
Commit ad3a37de authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Ingo Molnar
Browse files

perf_counter: Don't swap contexts containing locked mutex



Peter Zijlstra pointed out that under some circumstances, we can take
the mutex in a context or a counter and then swap that context or
counter to another task, potentially leading to lock order inversions
or the mutexes not protecting what they are supposed to protect.

This fixes the problem by making sure that we never take a mutex in a
context or counter which could get swapped to another task.  Most of
the cases where we take a mutex is on a top-level counter or context,
i.e. a counter which has an fd associated with it or a context that
contains such a counter.  This adds WARN_ON_ONCE statements to verify
that.

The two cases where we need to take the mutex on a context that is a
clone of another are in perf_counter_exit_task and
perf_counter_init_task.  The perf_counter_exit_task case is solved by
uncloning the context before starting to remove the counters from it.
The perf_counter_init_task is a little trickier; we temporarily
disable context swapping for the parent (forking) task by setting its
ctx->parent_gen to the all-1s value after locking the context, if it
is a cloned context, and restore the ctx->parent_gen value at the end
if the context didn't get uncloned in the meantime.

This also moves the increment of the context generation count to be
within the same critical section, protected by the context mutex, that
adds the new counter to the context.  That way, taking the mutex is
sufficient to ensure that both the counter list and the generation
count are stable.

[ Impact: fix hangs, races with inherited and PID counters ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <18975.31580.520676.619896@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent be1ac0d8
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please register or to comment