linux-kernel - [239/289] perf_events: Fix perf_counter

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Message-Id: <20101208005745.295405482@clark.site>
Date:	Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:00:16 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: [239/289] perf_events: Fix perf_counter_mmap() hook in mprotect()

2.6.36-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>

commit 63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da upstream.

As pointed out by Linus, commit dab5855 ("perf_counter: Add mmap event hooks to
mprotect()") is fundamentally wrong as mprotect_fixup() can free 'vma' due to
merging. Fix the problem by moving perf_event_mmap() hook to
mprotect_fixup().

Note: there's another successful return path from mprotect_fixup() if old
flags equal to new flags. We don't, however, need to call
perf_event_mmap() there because 'perf' already knows the VMA is
executable.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Analyzed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 mm/mprotect.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ success:
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, start, end);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, oldflags, vma->vm_file, -nrpages);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, newflags, vma->vm_file, nrpages);
+	perf_event_mmap(vma);
 	return 0;
 
 fail:
@@ -299,7 +300,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mprotect, unsigned long,
 		error = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, nstart, tmp, newflags);
 		if (error)
 			goto out;
-		perf_event_mmap(vma);
 		nstart = tmp;
 
 		if (nstart < prev->vm_end)


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