Commit 176cda0619b6 ("powerpc/perf: Add perf interface to expose vpa
counters") introduced 'vpa_pmu' to expose Book3s-HV nested APIv2 provided
L1<->L2 context switch latency counters to L1 user-space via
perf-events. However the newly introduced PMU named 'vpa_pmu' doesn't
assign ownership of the PMU to the module 'vpa_pmu'. Consequently the
module 'vpa_pmu' can be unloaded while one of the perf-events are still
active, which can lead to kernel oops and panic of the form below on a
Pseries-LPAR:
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000058
<snip>
NIP [c000000000506cb8] event_sched_out+0x40/0x258
LR [c00000000050e8a4] __perf_remove_from_context+0x7c/0x2b0
Call Trace:
[c00000025fc3fc30] [c00000025f8457a8] 0xc00000025f8457a8 (unreliable)
[c00000025fc3fc80] [fffffffffffffee0] 0xfffffffffffffee0
[c00000025fc3fcd0] [c000000000501e70] event_function+0xa8/0x120
<snip>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
Fix this by adding the module ownership to 'vpa_pmu' so that the module
'vpa_pmu' is ref-counted and prevented from being unloaded when perf-events
are initialized.
Fixes: 176cda0619b6 ("powerpc/perf: Add perf interface to expose vpa counters")
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c
index 6a5bfd2a13b5..840733468959 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/vpa-pmu.c
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ static void vpa_pmu_del(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
}
static struct pmu vpa_pmu = {
+ .module = THIS_MODULE,
.task_ctx_nr = perf_sw_context,
.name = "vpa_pmu",
.event_init = vpa_pmu_event_init,
--
2.48.1
