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Subject: Re: perf: use after free in perf_remove_from_context
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On 05/29/2014 11:07 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:47:09AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> It doesn't work out well because we later lock a mutex in sync_child_event().
>>
> 
> Urgh, right you are. I'll go stare at it more. It shouldn't have
> mattered, because the mutex we take just before should ensure existence,
> but.. you know.. :-)
> 

So the only caller to sync_child_event() is that loop. According to what you said
it should be safe to remove that mutex lock, but doing that triggers a list
corruption:

[ 1204.341887] WARNING: CPU: 20 PID: 12839 at lib/list_debug.c:62 __list_del_entry+0xa1/0xe0()
[ 1204.347597] list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff8806ca68b108, but was ffff88051a67c398
[...]

I don't see how that would happen :/


Thanks,
Sasha