perf: Rework free paths

Primarily make perf_event_release_kernel() into put_event(), this will
allow kernel space to create per-task inherited events, and is safer
in general.

Also, document the free_event() assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rk9pvr6e1d0559lxstltbztc@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Zijlstra 2014-05-05 12:11:24 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 63342411ef
commit 683ede43dd

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@ -3251,7 +3251,8 @@ static void __free_event(struct perf_event *event)
call_rcu(&event->rcu_head, free_event_rcu);
}
static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
static void _free_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
irq_work_sync(&event->pending);
@ -3279,42 +3280,31 @@ static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
if (is_cgroup_event(event))
perf_detach_cgroup(event);
__free_event(event);
}
int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
/*
* Used to free events which have a known refcount of 1, such as in error paths
* where the event isn't exposed yet and inherited events.
*/
static void free_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
if (WARN(atomic_long_cmpxchg(&event->refcount, 1, 0) != 1,
"unexpected event refcount: %ld; ptr=%p\n",
atomic_long_read(&event->refcount), event)) {
/* leak to avoid use-after-free */
return;
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
/*
* There are two ways this annotation is useful:
*
* 1) there is a lock recursion from perf_event_exit_task
* see the comment there.
*
* 2) there is a lock-inversion with mmap_sem through
* perf_event_read_group(), which takes faults while
* holding ctx->mutex, however this is called after
* the last filedesc died, so there is no possibility
* to trigger the AB-BA case.
*/
mutex_lock_nested(&ctx->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
perf_remove_from_context(event, true);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
free_event(event);
return 0;
_free_event(event);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel);
/*
* Called when the last reference to the file is gone.
*/
static void put_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
struct task_struct *owner;
if (!atomic_long_dec_and_test(&event->refcount))
@ -3353,9 +3343,33 @@ static void put_event(struct perf_event *event)
put_task_struct(owner);
}
perf_event_release_kernel(event);
WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->parent_ctx);
/*
* There are two ways this annotation is useful:
*
* 1) there is a lock recursion from perf_event_exit_task
* see the comment there.
*
* 2) there is a lock-inversion with mmap_sem through
* perf_event_read_group(), which takes faults while
* holding ctx->mutex, however this is called after
* the last filedesc died, so there is no possibility
* to trigger the AB-BA case.
*/
mutex_lock_nested(&ctx->mutex, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
perf_remove_from_context(event, true);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
_free_event(event);
}
int perf_event_release_kernel(struct perf_event *event)
{
put_event(event);
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_release_kernel);
static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
put_event(file->private_data);