3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 39af6b1678afa5880dda7e375cf3f9d395087f6d upstream. The perf cpu offline callback takes down all cpu context events and releases swhash->swevent_hlist. This could race with task context software event being just scheduled on this cpu via perf_swevent_add while cpu hotplug code already cleaned up event's data. The race happens in the gap between the cpu notifier code and the cpu being actually taken down. Note that only cpu ctx events are terminated in the perf cpu hotplug code. It's easily reproduced with: $ perf record -e faults perf bench sched pipe while putting one of the cpus offline: # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online Console emits following warning: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2845 at kernel/events/core.c:5672 perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0() Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 2845 Comm: sched-pipe Tainted: G W 3.14.0+ #256 Hardware name: Intel Corporation Montevina platform/To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS AMVACRB1.86C.0066.B00.0805070703 05/07/2008 0000000000000009 ffff880077233ab8 ffffffff81665a23 0000000000200005 0000000000000000 ffff880077233af8 ffffffff8104732c 0000000000000046 ffff88007467c800 0000000000000002 ffff88007a9cf2a0 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81665a23>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7c [<ffffffff8104732c>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8c/0xc0 [<ffffffff8104737a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff8110fb3d>] perf_swevent_add+0x18d/0x1a0 [<ffffffff811162ae>] event_sched_in.isra.75+0x9e/0x1f0 [<ffffffff8111646a>] group_sched_in+0x6a/0x1f0 [<ffffffff81083dd5>] ? sched_clock_local+0x25/0xa0 [<ffffffff811167e6>] ctx_sched_in+0x1f6/0x450 [<ffffffff8111757b>] perf_event_sched_in+0x6b/0xa0 [<ffffffff81117a4b>] perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7b/0xc0 [<ffffffff81117ece>] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x43e/0x460 [<ffffffff81096f1e>] ? put_lock_stats.isra.18+0xe/0x30 [<ffffffff8107b3c8>] finish_task_switch+0xb8/0x100 [<ffffffff8166a7de>] __schedule+0x30e/0xad0 [<ffffffff81172dd2>] ? pipe_read+0x3e2/0x560 [<ffffffff8166b45e>] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70 [<ffffffff8166b45e>] ? preempt_schedule_irq+0x3e/0x70 [<ffffffff8166b464>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x44/0x70 [<ffffffff816707f0>] retint_kernel+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff8109e60a>] ? lockdep_sys_exit+0x1a/0x90 [<ffffffff812a4234>] lockdep_sys_exit_thunk+0x35/0x67 [<ffffffff81679321>] ? sysret_check+0x5/0x56 Fixing this by tracking the cpu hotplug state and displaying the WARN only if current cpu is initialized properly. Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396861448-10097-1-git-send-email-jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -4854,6 +4854,9 @@ struct swevent_htable { /* Recursion avoidance in each contexts */ int recursion[PERF_NR_CONTEXTS]; + + /* Keeps track of cpu being initialized/exited */ + bool online; }; static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct swevent_htable, swevent_htable); @@ -5101,8 +5104,14 @@ static int perf_swevent_add(struct perf_ hwc->state = !(flags & PERF_EF_START); head = find_swevent_head(swhash, event); - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!head)) + if (!head) { + /* + * We can race with cpu hotplug code. Do not + * WARN if the cpu just got unplugged. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(swhash->online); return -EINVAL; + } hlist_add_head_rcu(&event->hlist_entry, head); @@ -7124,6 +7133,7 @@ static void __cpuinit perf_event_init_cp struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu); mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); + swhash->online = true; if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0) { struct swevent_hlist *hlist; @@ -7181,6 +7191,7 @@ static void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) perf_event_exit_cpu_context(cpu); mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); + swhash->online = false; swevent_hlist_release(swhash); mutex_unlock(&swhash->hlist_mutex); } -- 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