From 26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:55:48 +0200 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Al Viro Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/perf_event.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index f463a46424e2..c5b6dbf9c2fc 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -389,8 +389,7 @@ struct perf_event { /* mmap bits */ struct mutex mmap_mutex; atomic_t mmap_count; - int mmap_locked; - struct user_struct *mmap_user; + struct ring_buffer *rb; struct list_head rb_entry; -- cgit v1.2.3