linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: Fix the mlock accounting, again

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Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:08:18 +0200
From:   Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tmricht@...ux.ibm.com,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix the mlock accounting, again

Commit

  5e6c3c7b1ec2 ("perf/aux: Fix tracking of auxiliary trace buffer allocation")

tried to guess the correct combination of arithmetic operations that would
undo the AUX buffer's mlock accounting, and failed, leaking the bottom part
when an allocation needs to be changed partially to both user->locked_vm
and mm->pinned_vm, eventually leaving the user with no locked bonus:

$ perf record -e intel_pt//u -m1,128 uname
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.061 MB perf.data ]
$ perf record -e intel_pt//u -m1,128 uname
Permission error mapping pages.
Consider increasing /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb,
or try again with a smaller value of -m/--mmap_pages.
(current value: 1,128)

Fix this by subtracting both locked and pinned counts when AUX buffer is
unmapped.

Signefdoff-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 16d80ad8d6d7..522438887206 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5664,10 +5664,8 @@ static void perf_mmap_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		perf_pmu_output_stop(event);
 
 		/* now it's safe to free the pages */
-		if (!rb->aux_mmap_locked)
-			atomic_long_sub(rb->aux_nr_pages, &mmap_user->locked_vm);
-		else
-			atomic64_sub(rb->aux_mmap_locked, &vma->vm_mm->pinned_vm);
+		atomic_long_sub(rb->aux_nr_pages - rb->aux_mmap_locked, &mmap_user->locked_vm);
+		atomic64_sub(rb->aux_mmap_locked, &vma->vm_mm->pinned_vm);
 
 		/* this has to be the last one */
 		rb_free_aux(rb);
-- 
2.24.0