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perf: Fix perf mmap bugs
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 28 May 2013 08:55:48 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 May 2013 09:05:08 +0000 (11:05 +0200)
commit26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246
tree559c0a9778e7aa6639a24d9a7951879dc65d0551
parent7b959fc582741227a1c4cba710d6aff8fb183128
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>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/events/internal.h