perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()

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 <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409696840-843-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 685ce46b2aff..c958be1fb3a8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1702,6 +1702,16 @@ 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;
 	}