[PATCH 3.16 291/306] perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race

Ben Hutchings
2017-02-16T00:17:54Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 321027c1fe77f892f4ea07846aeae08cefbbb290 upstream.

Di Shen reported a race between two concurrent sys_perf_event_open()
calls where both try and move the same pre-existing software group
into a hardware context.

The problem is exactly that described in commit:

f63a8daa5812 ("perf: Fix event->ctx locking")

... where, while we wait for a ctx->mutex acquisition, the event->ctx
relation can have changed under us.

That very same commit failed to recognise sys_perf_event_context() as an
external access vector to the events and thereby didn't apply the
established locking rules correctly.

So while one sys_perf_event_open() call is stuck waiting on
mutex_lock_double(), the other (which owns said locks) moves the group
about. So by the time the former sys_perf_event_open() acquires the
locks, the context we've acquired is stale (and possibly dead).

Apply the established locking rules as per perf_event_ctx_lock_nested()
to the mutex_lock_double() for the 'move_group' case. This obviously means
we need to validate state after we acquire the locks.

Reported-by: Di Shen (Keen Lab)
Tested-by: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Min Chong <mchong@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: f63a8daa5812 ("perf: Fix event->ctx locking")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170106131444.GZ3174@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
- Use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of READ_ONCE()
- Test perf_event::group_flags instead of group_caps
- Add the err_locked cleanup block, which we didn't need before
- Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7311,6 +7311,37 @@ static void mutex_lock_double(struct mut
mutex_lock_nested(b, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
}

+/*
+ * Variation on perf_event_ctx_lock_nested(), except we take two context
+ * mutexes.
+ */
+static struct perf_event_context *
+__perf_event_ctx_lock_double(struct perf_event *group_leader,
+ struct perf_event_context *ctx)
+{
+ struct perf_event_context *gctx;
+
+again:
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ gctx = ACCESS_ONCE(group_leader->ctx);
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&gctx->refcount)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ goto again;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ mutex_lock_double(&gctx->mutex, &ctx->mutex);
+
+ if (group_leader->ctx != gctx) {
+ mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&gctx->mutex);
+ put_ctx(gctx);
+ goto again;
+ }
+
+ return gctx;
+}
+
/**
* sys_perf_event_open - open a performance event, associate it to a task/cpu
*
@@ -7522,14 +7553,31 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}

if (move_group) {
- gctx = group_leader->ctx;
+ gctx = __perf_event_ctx_lock_double(group_leader, ctx);
+
+ /*
+ * Check if we raced against another sys_perf_event_open() call
+ * moving the software group underneath us.
+ */
+ if (!(group_leader->group_flags & PERF_GROUP_SOFTWARE)) {
+ /*
+ * If someone moved the group out from under us, check
+ * if this new event wound up on the same ctx, if so
+ * its the regular !move_group case, otherwise fail.
+ */
+ if (gctx != ctx) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto err_locked;
+ } else {
+ perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
+ move_group = 0;
+ }
+ }

/*
* See perf_event_ctx_lock() for comments on the details
* of swizzling perf_event::ctx.
*/
- mutex_lock_double(&gctx->mutex, &ctx->mutex);
-
perf_remove_from_context(group_leader, false);

/*
@@ -7569,10 +7617,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
perf_install_in_context(ctx, event, event->cpu);
perf_unpin_context(ctx);

- if (move_group) {
- mutex_unlock(&gctx->mutex);
- put_ctx(gctx);
- }
+ if (move_group)
+ perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);

put_online_cpus();
@@ -7599,6 +7645,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
fd_install(event_fd, event_file);
return event_fd;

+err_locked:
+ if (move_group)
+ perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
+ mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
+ fput(event_file);
err_context:
perf_unpin_context(ctx);
put_ctx(ctx);