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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2014-10-02 19:17:02 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-02 19:28:44 -0400
commit6c72e3501d0d62fc064d3680e5234f3463ec5a86 (patch)
tree48b15a8bc67816fe492e1323580bf8ee99b29e81 /kernel/fork.c
parentcba5b1c6e2c42152135a85b90bf820b77d6527da (diff)
perf: fix perf bug in fork()
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 <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier <sylvain.hitier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 0cf9cdb6e491..a91e47d86de2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
1360 goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; 1360 goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy;
1361 retval = audit_alloc(p); 1361 retval = audit_alloc(p);
1362 if (retval) 1362 if (retval)
1363 goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; 1363 goto bad_fork_cleanup_perf;
1364 /* copy all the process information */ 1364 /* copy all the process information */
1365 shm_init_task(p); 1365 shm_init_task(p);
1366 retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p); 1366 retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p);
@@ -1566,8 +1566,9 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo:
1566 exit_sem(p); 1566 exit_sem(p);
1567bad_fork_cleanup_audit: 1567bad_fork_cleanup_audit:
1568 audit_free(p); 1568 audit_free(p);
1569bad_fork_cleanup_policy: 1569bad_fork_cleanup_perf:
1570 perf_event_free_task(p); 1570 perf_event_free_task(p);
1571bad_fork_cleanup_policy:
1571#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA 1572#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
1572 mpol_put(p->mempolicy); 1573 mpol_put(p->mempolicy);
1573bad_fork_cleanup_threadgroup_lock: 1574bad_fork_cleanup_threadgroup_lock: