This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size() lockdep splat
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-fix-perf_event_validate_size-lockdep-splat.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e892c49fb31c997cae69f2d46690f76ed692804f
Author: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Dec 15 11:24:50 2023 +0000
perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size() lockdep splat
[ Upstream commit 7e2c1e4b34f07d9aa8937fab88359d4a0fce468e ]
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@xxxxxxxxx/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZXpm6gQ%2Fd59jGsuW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Pengfei Xu <pengfei.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231215112450.3972309-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index fcc8e3823198f..1e62a567b0d7a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -1835,6 +1835,16 @@ static bool perf_event_validate_size(struct perf_event *event)
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)
