From 90983b16078ab0fdc58f0dab3e8e3da79c9579a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 02:31:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Sanitize get_callchain_buffer() In case of allocation failure, get_callchain_buffer() keeps the refcount incremented for the current event. As a result, when get_callchain_buffers() returns an error, we must cleanup what it did by cancelling its last refcount with a call to put_callchain_buffers(). This is a hack in order to be able to call free_event() after that failure. The original purpose of that was to simplify the failure path. But this error handling is actually counter intuitive, ugly and not very easy to follow because one expect to see the resources used to perform a service to be cleaned by the callee if case of failure, not by the caller. So lets clean this up by cancelling the refcount from get_callchain_buffer() in case of failure. And correctly free the event accordingly in perf_event_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Stephane Eranian Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374539466-4799-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/callchain.c | 2 ++ kernel/events/core.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/callchain.c b/kernel/events/callchain.c index c77206184b8b..76a8bc5f6265 100644 --- a/kernel/events/callchain.c +++ b/kernel/events/callchain.c @@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ int get_callchain_buffers(void) err = alloc_callchain_buffers(); exit: mutex_unlock(&callchain_mutex); + if (err) + atomic_dec(&nr_callchain_events); return err; } diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index f35aa7e69e2d..3b998626b7a0 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6457,7 +6457,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, struct pmu *pmu; struct perf_event *event; struct hw_perf_event *hwc; - long err; + long err = -EINVAL; if ((unsigned)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) { if (!task || cpu != -1) @@ -6540,25 +6540,23 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, * we currently do not support PERF_FORMAT_GROUP on inherited events */ if (attr->inherit && (attr->read_format & PERF_FORMAT_GROUP)) - goto done; + goto err_ns; pmu = perf_init_event(event); - -done: - err = 0; if (!pmu) - err = -EINVAL; - else if (IS_ERR(pmu)) + goto err_ns; + else if (IS_ERR(pmu)) { err = PTR_ERR(pmu); - - if (err) { - if (event->ns) - put_pid_ns(event->ns); - kfree(event); - return ERR_PTR(err); + goto err_ns; } if (!event->parent) { + if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) { + err = get_callchain_buffers(); + if (err) + goto err_pmu; + } + if (event->attach_state & PERF_ATTACH_TASK) static_key_slow_inc(&perf_sched_events.key); if (event->attr.mmap || event->attr.mmap_data) @@ -6573,16 +6571,19 @@ done: atomic_inc(&per_cpu(perf_branch_stack_events, event->cpu)); } - if (event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN) { - err = get_callchain_buffers(); - if (err) { - free_event(event); - return ERR_PTR(err); - } - } } return event; + +err_pmu: + if (event->destroy) + event->destroy(event); +err_ns: + if (event->ns) + put_pid_ns(event->ns); + kfree(event); + + return ERR_PTR(err); } static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr,