4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com
commit 7e2c1e4b34f07d9aa8937fab88359d4a0fce468e upstream.
When lockdep is enabled, the for_each_sibling_event(sibling, event) macro checks that event->ctx->mutex is held. When creating a new group leader event, we call perf_event_validate_size() on a partially initialized event where event->ctx is NULL, and so when for_each_sibling_event() attempts to check event->ctx->mutex, we get a splat, as reported by Lucas De Marchi:
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1471 at kernel/events/core.c:1950 __do_sys_perf_event_open+0xf37/0x1080
This only happens for a new event which is its own group_leader, and in this case there cannot be any sibling events. Thus it's safe to skip the check for siblings, which avoids having to make invasive and ugly changes to for_each_sibling_event().
Avoid the splat by bailing out early when the new event is its own group_leader.
Fixes: 382c27f4ed28f803 ("perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size()") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231214000620.3081018-1-lucas.demarchi@intel.c... Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZXpm6gQ%2Fd59jGsuW@xpf.sh.intel.com/ Reported-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@intel.com Reported-by: Pengfei Xu pengfei.xu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231215112450.3972309-1-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -1834,6 +1834,16 @@ static bool perf_event_validate_size(str group_leader->nr_siblings + 1) > 16*1024) return false;
+ /* + * When creating a new group leader, group_leader->ctx is initialized + * after the size has been validated, but we cannot safely use + * for_each_sibling_event() until group_leader->ctx is set. A new group + * leader cannot have any siblings yet, so we can safely skip checking + * the non-existent siblings. + */ + if (event == group_leader) + return true; + for_each_sibling_event(sibling, group_leader) { if (__perf_event_read_size(sibling->attr.read_format, group_leader->nr_siblings + 1) > 16*1024)