This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf: Fix ring_buffer_attach() RCU sync, again to the 4.1-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-ring_buffer_attach-rcu-sync-again.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2f993cf093643b98477c421fa2b9a98dcc940323 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 22:04:25 +0200 Subject: perf: Fix ring_buffer_attach() RCU sync, again From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 2f993cf093643b98477c421fa2b9a98dcc940323 upstream. While looking for other users of get_state/cond_sync. I Found ring_buffer_attach() and it looks obviously buggy? Don't we need to ensure that we have "synchronize" _between_ list_del() and list_add() ? IOW. Suppose that ring_buffer_attach() preempts right_after get_state_synchronize_rcu() and gp completes before spin_lock(). In this case cond_synchronize_rcu() does nothing and we reuse ->rb_entry without waiting for gp in between? It also moves the ->rcu_pending check under "if (rb)", to make it more readable imo. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: der.herr@xxxxxxx Cc: josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: tj@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: b69cf53640da ("perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_attach()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150530200425.GA15748@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -4331,20 +4331,20 @@ static void ring_buffer_attach(struct pe WARN_ON_ONCE(event->rcu_pending); old_rb = event->rb; - event->rcu_batches = get_state_synchronize_rcu(); - event->rcu_pending = 1; - spin_lock_irqsave(&old_rb->event_lock, flags); list_del_rcu(&event->rb_entry); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&old_rb->event_lock, flags); - } - if (event->rcu_pending && rb) { - cond_synchronize_rcu(event->rcu_batches); - event->rcu_pending = 0; + event->rcu_batches = get_state_synchronize_rcu(); + event->rcu_pending = 1; } if (rb) { + if (event->rcu_pending) { + cond_synchronize_rcu(event->rcu_batches); + event->rcu_pending = 0; + } + spin_lock_irqsave(&rb->event_lock, flags); list_add_rcu(&event->rb_entry, &rb->event_list); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rb->event_lock, flags); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/perf-x86-add-more-broadwell-model-numbers.patch queue-4.1/perf-x86-intel-bts-fix-ds-area-sharing-with-x86_pmu-events.patch queue-4.1/perf-fix-ring_buffer_attach-rcu-sync-again.patch queue-4.1/perf-x86-honor-the-architectural-performance-monitoring-version.patch -- 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