[tip:perf/core] perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock

[tip:perf/core] perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock

[tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra]

Commit-ID:  642c2d671ceff40e9453203ea0c66e991e11e249
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/642c2d671ceff40e9453203ea0c66e991e11e249
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:56:15 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:08:03 +0100

perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD deadlock

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>
---
 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 5854fcf..49a5118 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4225,7 +4225,14 @@ retry:
 		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;