Commit-ID:  ebf905fc7a6e7c99c53b5afc888d8f950da90aff
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ebf905fc7a6e7c99c53b5afc888d8f950da90aff
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:00:24 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:29:52 +0200

perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()

While that mutex should guard the elements, it doesn't guard against the
use-after-free that's from list_for_each_entry_rcu().
__perf_event_exit_task() can actually free the event.

And because list addition/deletion is guarded by both ctx->mutex and
ctx->lock, holding ctx->mutex is sufficient for reading the list, so we
don't actually need the rcu list iteration.

Fixes: 3a497f48637e ("perf: Simplify perf_event_exit_task_context()")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com>
Cc: a...@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140529170024.ga2...@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index ed50b09..a62d142 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7431,7 +7431,7 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event,
 
 static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 {
-       struct perf_event *child_event;
+       struct perf_event *child_event, *next;
        struct perf_event_context *child_ctx;
        unsigned long flags;
 
@@ -7485,7 +7485,7 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct 
task_struct *child, int ctxn)
         */
        mutex_lock(&child_ctx->mutex);
 
-       list_for_each_entry_rcu(child_event, &child_ctx->event_list, 
event_entry)
+       list_for_each_entry_safe(child_event, next, &child_ctx->event_list, 
event_entry)
                __perf_event_exit_task(child_event, child_ctx, child);
 
        mutex_unlock(&child_ctx->mutex);
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