From 4a1c0f262f88e2676fda80a6bf80e7dbccae1dcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:12:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix lockdep warning on process exit Sasha Levin reported: > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next > kernel I've stumbled on the following spew: > > ====================================================== > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 3.15.0-next-20140613-sasha-00026-g6dd125d-dirty #654 Not tainted > ------------------------------------------------------- > trinity-c578/9725 is trying to acquire lock: > (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: __queue_work (kernel/workqueue.c:1346) > > but task is already holding lock: > (&ctx->lock){-.....}, at: perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:7471 kernel/events/core.c:7533) > > which lock already depends on the new lock. > 1 lock held by trinity-c578/9725: > #0: (&ctx->lock){-.....}, at: perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:7471 kernel/events/core.c:7533) > > Call Trace: > dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52) > print_circular_bug (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1216) > __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1840 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1945 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2131 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3182) > lock_acquire (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3602) > _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151) > __queue_work (kernel/workqueue.c:1346) > queue_work_on (kernel/workqueue.c:1424) > free_object (lib/debugobjects.c:209) > __debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:715) > debug_check_no_obj_freed (lib/debugobjects.c:727) > kmem_cache_free (mm/slub.c:2683 mm/slub.c:2711) > free_task (kernel/fork.c:221) > __put_task_struct (kernel/fork.c:250) > put_ctx (include/linux/sched.h:1855 kernel/events/core.c:898) > perf_event_exit_task (kernel/events/core.c:907 kernel/events/core.c:7478 kernel/events/core.c:7533) > do_exit (kernel/exit.c:766) > do_group_exit (kernel/exit.c:884) > get_signal_to_deliver (kernel/signal.c:2347) > do_signal (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:698) > do_notify_resume (arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:751) > int_signal (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:600) Urgh.. so the only way I can make that happen is through: perf_event_exit_task_context() raw_spin_lock(&child_ctx->lock); unclone_ctx(child_ctx) put_ctx(ctx->parent_ctx); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock); And we can avoid this by doing the change below. I can't immediately see how this changed recently, but given that you say it's easy to reproduce, lets fix this. Reported-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140623141242.GB19860@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index c46b02bfe179..6b17ac1b0c2a 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7486,7 +7486,7 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event, static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) { struct perf_event *child_event, *next; - struct perf_event_context *child_ctx; + struct perf_event_context *child_ctx, *parent_ctx; unsigned long flags; if (likely(!child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) { @@ -7511,6 +7511,15 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) raw_spin_lock(&child_ctx->lock); task_ctx_sched_out(child_ctx); child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn] = NULL; + + /* + * In order to avoid freeing: child_ctx->parent_ctx->task + * under perf_event_context::lock, grab another reference. + */ + parent_ctx = child_ctx->parent_ctx; + if (parent_ctx) + get_ctx(parent_ctx); + /* * If this context is a clone; unclone it so it can't get * swapped to another process while we're removing all @@ -7520,6 +7529,13 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) update_context_time(child_ctx); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock, flags); + /* + * Now that we no longer hold perf_event_context::lock, drop + * our extra child_ctx->parent_ctx reference. + */ + if (parent_ctx) + put_ctx(parent_ctx); + /* * Report the task dead after unscheduling the events so that we * won't get any samples after PERF_RECORD_EXIT. We can however still -- 2.30.2