From c3c87e770458aa004bd7ed3f29945ff436fd6511 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:19:48 +0100 Subject: perf: Tighten (and fix) the grouping condition The fix from 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") was incomplete in that it failed to recognise that creating a group with events for different CPUs is semantically broken -- they cannot be co-scheduled. Furthermore, it leads to real breakage where, when we create an event for CPU Y and then migrate it to form a group on CPU X, the code gets confused where the counter is programmed -- triggered in practice as well by me via the perf fuzzer. Fix this by tightening the rules for creating groups. Only allow grouping of counters that can be co-scheduled in the same context. This means for the same task and/or the same cpu. Fixes: 9fc81d87420d ("perf: Fix events installation during moving group") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150123125834.090683288@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 882f835..19efcf1 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6776,7 +6776,6 @@ skip_type: __perf_event_init_context(&cpuctx->ctx); lockdep_set_class(&cpuctx->ctx.mutex, &cpuctx_mutex); lockdep_set_class(&cpuctx->ctx.lock, &cpuctx_lock); - cpuctx->ctx.type = cpu_context; cpuctx->ctx.pmu = pmu; __perf_cpu_hrtimer_init(cpuctx, cpu); @@ -7420,7 +7419,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, * task or CPU context: */ if (move_group) { - if (group_leader->ctx->type != ctx->type) + /* + * Make sure we're both on the same task, or both + * per-cpu events. + */ + if (group_leader->ctx->task != ctx->task) + goto err_context; + + /* + * Make sure we're both events for the same CPU; + * grouping events for different CPUs is broken; since + * you can never concurrently schedule them anyhow. + */ + if (group_leader->cpu != event->cpu) goto err_context; } else { if (group_leader->ctx != ctx) -- cgit v1.1