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perf: Fix ring_buffer_attach() RCU sync, again
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Sat, 30 May 2015 20:04:25 +0000 (22:04 +0200)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:50:09 +0000 (08:50 -0400)
commiteb1ea7225f048971e596f26dbda4f7089869b553
treecf810701dfaa20aaa80bcc69a63c4dadbf01be17
parent41a9cc4cdc9f75335731631575632a36c9c96d16
perf: Fix ring_buffer_attach() RCU sync, again

[ Upstream commit 2f993cf093643b98477c421fa2b9a98dcc940323 ]

While looking for other users of get_state/cond_sync. I Found
ring_buffer_attach() and it looks obviously buggy?

Don't we need to ensure that we have "synchronize" _between_
list_del() and list_add() ?

IOW. Suppose that ring_buffer_attach() preempts right_after
get_state_synchronize_rcu() and gp completes before spin_lock().

In this case cond_synchronize_rcu() does nothing and we reuse
->rb_entry without waiting for gp in between?

It also moves the ->rcu_pending check under "if (rb)", to make it
more readable imo.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: der.herr@hofr.at
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Fixes: b69cf53640da ("perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_attach()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150530200425.GA15748@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
kernel/events/core.c