Patch "perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race

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-concurrent-sys_perf_event_open-vs.-move_group-race.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 321027c1fe77f892f4ea07846aeae08cefbbb290 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:09:50 +0100
Subject: perf/core: Fix concurrent sys_perf_event_open() vs. 'move_group' race

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 4.4:
 - Test perf_event::group_flags instead of group_caps
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |   57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8250,6 +8250,37 @@ static int perf_event_set_clock(struct p
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * 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 = READ_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
  *
@@ -8486,8 +8517,26 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	}
 
 	if (move_group) {
-		gctx = group_leader->ctx;
-		mutex_lock_double(&gctx->mutex, &ctx->mutex);
+		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;
+			}
+		}
 	} else {
 		mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex);
 	}
@@ -8582,7 +8631,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	perf_unpin_context(ctx);
 
 	if (move_group)
-		mutex_unlock(&gctx->mutex);
+		perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
 
 	if (task) {
@@ -8610,7 +8659,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 
 err_locked:
 	if (move_group)
-		mutex_unlock(&gctx->mutex);
+		perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx);
 	mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
 /* err_file: */
 	fput(event_file);


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

queue-4.4/perf-core-fix-concurrent-sys_perf_event_open-vs.-move_group-race.patch