Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two kernel side fixes: a kprobes fix and a perf_remove_from_context()
  fix (which does not yet fix the migration bug which is WIP)"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()
  kprobes/x86: Free 'optinsn' cache when range check fails

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index f9c1ed002dbc..d640a8b4dcbc 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1524,6 +1524,11 @@ 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;
                 goto retry;
         }
 
@@ -1967,6 +1972,11 @@ 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;
                 goto retry;
         }