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Ravi Bangoria authored
When destroying a hw_breakpoint event, the kernel oopses as follows: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000c07 NIP [c0000000000291d0] arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint+0x40/0x60 LR [c00000000020b6b4] release_bp_slot+0x44/0x80 Call chain: hw_breakpoint_event_init() bp->destroy = bp_perf_event_destroy; do_exit() perf_event_exit_task() perf_event_exit_task_context() WRITE_ONCE(child_ctx->task, TASK_TOMBSTONE); perf_event_exit_event() free_event() _free_event() bp_perf_event_destroy() // event->destroy(event); release_bp_slot() arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() perf_event_exit_task_context() sets child_ctx->task as TASK_TOMBSTONE which is (void *)-1. arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint() tries to fetch 'thread' attribute of 'task' resulting in oops. Peterz points out that the code shouldn't be using bp->ctx anyway, but fixing that will require a decent amount of rework. So for now to fix the oops, check if bp->ctx->task has been set to (void *)-1, before dereferencing it. We don't use TASK_TOMBSTONE, because that would require exporting it and it's supposed to be an internal detail. Fixes: 63b6da39 ("perf: Fix perf_event_exit_task() race") Signed-off-by:
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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