Patch "perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-core-fix-event-inheritance-on-fork.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e7cc4865f0f31698ef2f7aac01a50e78968985b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:47:49 +0100
Subject: perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork()

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit e7cc4865f0f31698ef2f7aac01a50e78968985b7 upstream.

While hunting for clues to a use-after-free, Oleg spotted that
perf_event_init_context() can loose an error value with the result
that fork() can succeed even though we did not fully inherit the perf
event context.

Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.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>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Fixes: 889ff0150661 ("perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316125823.190342547@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/core.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9230,7 +9230,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 		ret = inherit_task_group(event, parent, parent_ctx,
 					 child, ctxn, &inherited_all);
 		if (ret)
-			break;
+			goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -9246,7 +9246,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 		ret = inherit_task_group(event, parent, parent_ctx,
 					 child, ctxn, &inherited_all);
 		if (ret)
-			break;
+			goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
@@ -9274,6 +9274,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 	}
 
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
+out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
 
 	perf_unpin_context(parent_ctx);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are

queue-4.4/xen-qspinlock-don-t-kick-cpu-if-irq-is-not-initialized.patch
queue-4.4/perf-core-fix-event-inheritance-on-fork.patch