Patch "perf: Fix race in swevent hash" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    perf: Fix race in swevent hash

to the 3.18-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-fix-race-in-swevent-hash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:49:05 +0100
Subject: perf: Fix race in swevent hash

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

commit 12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373 upstream.

There's a race on CPU unplug where we free the swevent hash array
while it can still have events on. This will result in a
use-after-free which is BAD.

Simply do not free the hash array on unplug. This leaves the thing
around and no use-after-free takes place.

When the last swevent dies, we do a for_each_possible_cpu() iteration
anyway to clean these up, at which time we'll free it, so no leakage
will occur.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |   20 +-------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 19 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5851,9 +5851,6 @@ struct swevent_htable {
 
 	/* Recursion avoidance in each contexts */
 	int				recursion[PERF_NR_CONTEXTS];
-
-	/* Keeps track of cpu being initialized/exited */
-	bool				online;
 };
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct swevent_htable, swevent_htable);
@@ -6111,14 +6108,8 @@ static int perf_swevent_add(struct perf_
 	hwc->state = !(flags & PERF_EF_START);
 
 	head = find_swevent_head(swhash, event);
-	if (!head) {
-		/*
-		 * We can race with cpu hotplug code. Do not
-		 * WARN if the cpu just got unplugged.
-		 */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(swhash->online);
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!head))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 
 	hlist_add_head_rcu(&event->hlist_entry, head);
 
@@ -6185,7 +6176,6 @@ static int swevent_hlist_get_cpu(struct
 	int err = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
-
 	if (!swevent_hlist_deref(swhash) && cpu_online(cpu)) {
 		struct swevent_hlist *hlist;
 
@@ -8342,7 +8332,6 @@ static void perf_event_init_cpu(int cpu)
 	struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
 
 	mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
-	swhash->online = true;
 	if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0) {
 		struct swevent_hlist *hlist;
 
@@ -8395,14 +8384,7 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu_context(
 
 static void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu)
 {
-	struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
-
 	perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu);
-
-	mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
-	swhash->online = false;
-	swevent_hlist_release(swhash);
-	mutex_unlock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
 }
 #else
 static inline void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) { }


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

queue-3.18/arm64-perf-reject-groups-spanning-multiple-hw-pmus.patch
queue-3.18/x86-boot-fix-bss-corruption-overwrite-bug-in-early-x86-kernel-startup.patch
queue-3.18/perf-fix-race-in-swevent-hash.patch
queue-3.18/perf-fix-event-ctx-locking.patch