3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e3703f8cdfcf39c25c4338c3ad8e68891cca3731 upstream. Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging while having perf events active. It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in __perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from the context. We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go *boom* because you've still got dead entries there. Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7421,14 +7421,14 @@ static void perf_pmu_rotate_stop(struct static void __perf_event_exit_context(void *__info) { struct perf_event_context *ctx = __info; - struct perf_event *event, *tmp; + struct perf_event *event; perf_pmu_rotate_stop(ctx->pmu); - list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &ctx->pinned_groups, group_entry) - __perf_remove_from_context(event); - list_for_each_entry_safe(event, tmp, &ctx->flexible_groups, group_entry) + rcu_read_lock(); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) __perf_remove_from_context(event); + rcu_read_unlock(); } static void perf_event_exit_cpu_context(int cpu) @@ -7452,11 +7452,11 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) { struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu); + perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu); + mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); swevent_hlist_release(swhash); mutex_unlock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); - - perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu); } #else static inline void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) { } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html