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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-10-25 17:52:28 -1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-10-25 17:52:28 -1000
commitdc7be96c1cac85cc172b90a47f80e23d847c9203 (patch)
treef2101e71dcfb5d96ff524f6a88d91f685f5f3a33 /kernel
parent2b19759b46aee85627b58f3722846424201f24a7 (diff)
parentd095321349222961813333277881b3c74f10b17b (diff)
Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2026-10-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf events fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix Alpha build failure caused by a semantic conflict between perf and arch-alpha changes (Thomas Weißschuh) - Fix UAF in attach_task_ctx_data() (Lee Jia Jie) - Fix perf_remove_from_context() event scheduling (Peter Zijlstra) * tag 'perf-urgent-2026-10-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix perf_remove_from_context() event scheduling perf: Fix UAF in attach_task_ctx_data() alpha: add simd_enabled argument to perf_reg_validate()
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index a9ee91151b2d..f36a3bbaa33c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -2590,6 +2590,7 @@ __perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event,
enum perf_event_state state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF;
unsigned long flags = (unsigned long)info;
+ perf_pmu_disable(pmu_ctx->pmu);
ctx_time_update(cpuctx, ctx);
/*
@@ -2603,6 +2604,13 @@ __perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event,
if (flags & DETACH_DEAD)
state = PERF_EVENT_STATE_DEAD;
+ /*
+ * When disabling a group leader, the whole group becomes ineligible
+ * to run, so schedule out the full group.
+ */
+ if (!(flags & DETACH_GROUP) && event == event->group_leader)
+ group_sched_out(event, ctx);
+
__event_disable(event, ctx, state);
if (flags & DETACH_GROUP)
@@ -2632,6 +2640,7 @@ __perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event,
cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL;
}
}
+ perf_pmu_enable(pmu_ctx->pmu);
}
/*
@@ -5434,6 +5443,9 @@ attach_task_ctx_data(struct task_struct *task, struct kmem_cache *ctx_cache,
return -ENOMEM;
for (;;) {
+ /* Protect @old until inc_not_zero(&old->refcount) */
+ guard(rcu)();
+
if (try_cmpxchg(&task->perf_ctx_data, &old, cd)) {
if (old)
perf_free_ctx_data_rcu(old);