linux/kernel/events
Peter Zijlstra 26cb63ad11 perf: Fix perf mmap bugs
Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity
fuzzer.

Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap():

 - it has issues against fork() since we use vma->vm_mm for accounting.
 - it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap().

We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't
think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear
about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to
work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work.

Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example
prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of
perf_event_set_output().

This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with
one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per
event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own
accounting.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28 11:05:08 +02:00
..
callchain.c perf: Add attribute to filter out callchains 2012-08-10 12:40:57 -03:00
core.c perf: Fix perf mmap bugs 2013-05-28 11:05:08 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure 2013-02-14 17:06:39 -03:00
internal.h perf: Fix perf mmap bugs 2013-05-28 11:05:08 +02:00
Makefile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ 2012-02-22 11:08:00 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Fix vmalloc ring buffer pages handling 2013-05-01 12:34:46 +02:00
uprobes.c uretprobes: Remove -ENOSYS as return probes implemented 2013-04-13 15:31:58 +02:00