perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
While that mutex should guard the elements, it doesn't guard against the use-after-free that's from list_for_each_entry_rcu(). __perf_event_exit_task() can actually free the event. And because list addition/deletion is guarded by both ctx->mutex and ctx->lock, holding ctx->mutex is sufficient for reading the list, so we don't actually need the rcu list iteration. Fixes: 3a497f48 ("perf: Simplify perf_event_exit_task_context()") Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140529170024.GA2315@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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