3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>

commit e3703f8cdfcf39c25c4338c3ad8e68891cca3731 upstream.

Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when 
hotplugging
while having perf events active.

It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.

We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richard...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0...@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7149,14 +7149,14 @@ static void perf_pmu_rotate_stop(struct
 static void __perf_event_exit_context(void *__info)
 {
        struct perf_event_context *ctx = __info;
-       struct perf_event *event, *tmp;
+       struct perf_event *event;
 
        perf_pmu_rotate_stop(ctx->pmu);
 
-       list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &ctx->pinned_groups, group_entry)
-               __perf_remove_from_context(event);
-       list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &ctx->flexible_groups, group_entry)
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry)
                __perf_remove_from_context(event);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 static void perf_event_exit_cpu_context(int cpu)
@@ -7180,11 +7180,11 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu)
 {
        struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
 
+       perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu);
+
        mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
        swevent_hlist_release(swhash);
        mutex_unlock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
-
-       perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu);
 }
 #else
 static inline void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) { }


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