From 919e67a63aa967566a909f4f6e1c13f8e88cf76e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Shishkin Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:14:53 +0000 Subject: perf/core: Fix perf_sched_count derailment [ Upstream commit 927a5570855836e5d5859a80ce7e91e963545e8f ] The error path in perf_event_open() is such that asking for a sampling event on a PMU that doesn't generate interrupts will end up in dropping the perf_sched_count even though it hasn't been incremented for this event yet. Given a sufficient amount of these calls, we'll end up disabling scheduler's jump label even though we'd still have active events in the system, thereby facilitating the arrival of the infernal regions upon us. I'm fixing this by moving account_event() inside perf_event_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: vince@deater.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456917854-29427-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: He Kuang Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- kernel/events/core.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 0eaf3f0b0974..66e6568a4736 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7641,6 +7641,9 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, } } + /* symmetric to unaccount_event() in _free_event() */ + account_event(event); + return event; err_per_task: @@ -8004,8 +8007,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, } } - account_event(event); - /* * Special case software events and allow them to be part of * any hardware group. @@ -8270,8 +8271,6 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, /* Mark owner so we could distinguish it from user events. */ event->owner = EVENT_OWNER_KERNEL; - account_event(event); - ctx = find_get_context(event->pmu, task, event); if (IS_ERR(ctx)) { err = PTR_ERR(ctx); -- cgit v1.2.3