The patch below does not apply to the 3.17-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 9c2b9d30e28559a78c9e431cdd7f2c6bf5a9ee67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:12:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix perf bug in fork() Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and 'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent process. This is bad and might explain some outstanding fuzzer failures ... Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier <sylvain.hitier@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140929101201.GE5430@worktop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index afdd9e1d7144..658f232af04c 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7956,8 +7956,10 @@ int perf_event_init_task(struct task_struct *child) for_each_task_context_nr(ctxn) { ret = perf_event_init_context(child, ctxn); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + perf_event_free_task(child); return ret; + } } return 0; diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 0cf9cdb6e491..a91e47d86de2 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1360,7 +1360,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; retval = audit_alloc(p); if (retval) - goto bad_fork_cleanup_policy; + goto bad_fork_cleanup_perf; /* copy all the process information */ shm_init_task(p); retval = copy_semundo(clone_flags, p); @@ -1566,8 +1566,9 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_semundo: exit_sem(p); bad_fork_cleanup_audit: audit_free(p); -bad_fork_cleanup_policy: +bad_fork_cleanup_perf: perf_event_free_task(p); +bad_fork_cleanup_policy: #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA mpol_put(p->mempolicy); bad_fork_cleanup_threadgroup_lock: -- 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