From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit 3ac6487e584a1eb54071dbe1212e05b884136704 upstream.
Norbert reported that it's possible to race sys_perf_event_open() such that the looser ends up in another context from the group leader, triggering many WARNs.
The move_group case checks for races against itself, but the !move_group case doesn't, seemingly relying on the previous group_leader->ctx == ctx check. However, that check is racy due to not holding any locks at that time.
Therefore, re-check the result after acquiring locks and bailing if they no longer match.
Additionally, clarify the not_move_group case from the move_group-vs-move_group race.
Fixes: f63a8daa5812 ("perf: Fix event->ctx locking") Reported-by: Norbert Slusarek nslusarek@gmx.net Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -10758,6 +10758,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, * Do not allow to attach to a group in a different task * or CPU context. If we're moving SW events, we'll fix * this up later, so allow that. + * + * Racy, not holding group_leader->ctx->mutex, see comment with + * perf_event_ctx_lock(). */ if (!move_group && group_leader->ctx != ctx) goto err_context; @@ -10807,6 +10810,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, } else { perf_event_ctx_unlock(group_leader, gctx); move_group = 0; + goto not_move_group; } }
@@ -10823,7 +10827,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, } } else { mutex_lock(&ctx->mutex); + + /* + * Now that we hold ctx->lock, (re)validate group_leader->ctx == ctx, + * see the group_leader && !move_group test earlier. + */ + if (group_leader && group_leader->ctx != ctx) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_locked; + } } +not_move_group:
if (ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE) { err = -ESRCH;