[PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 84/98] perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock

Sasha Levin
2018-10-25T14:18:39Z

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit 642c2d671ceff40e9453203ea0c66e991e11e249 ]

Dmitry reported a fairly silly recursive lock deadlock for
PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD, fix this by explicitly doing the inactive part of
__perf_event_period() instead of calling that function.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Fixes: c7999c6f3fed ("perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD migration race")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151130115615.GJ17308@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 1f08f691de59..7b2f9d432fe7 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3929,7 +3929,14 @@ static int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 __user *arg)
goto retry;
}

- __perf_event_period(&pe);
+ if (event->attr.freq) {
+ event->attr.sample_freq = value;
+ } else {
+ event->attr.sample_period = value;
+ event->hw.sample_period = value;
+ }
+
+ local64_set(&event->hw.period_left, 0);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);

return 0;
--
2.17.1