linux-kernel - Re: [tip: perf/core] perf: Fix irq work dereferencing garbage

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Message-ID: <20250508194605.GA8552@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2025 21:46:05 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [tip: perf/core] perf: Fix irq work dereferencing garbage

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 09:11:23PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Le Thu, May 08, 2025 at 10:34:29AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Frederic Weisbecker a écrit :
> > The following commit has been merged into the perf/core branch of tip:
> > 
> > Commit-ID:     88d51e795539acd08bce028eff3aa78748b847a8
> > Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/88d51e795539acd08bce028eff3aa78748b847a8
> > Author:        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
> > AuthorDate:    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:11:47 +02:00
> > Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> > CommitterDate: Fri, 02 May 2025 12:40:40 +02:00
> > 
> > perf: Fix irq work dereferencing garbage
> > 
> > The following commit:
> > 
> > 	da916e96e2de ("perf: Make perf_pmu_unregister() useable")
> > 
> > has introduced two significant event's parent lifecycle changes:
> > 
> > 1) An event that has exited now has EVENT_TOMBSTONE as a parent.
> >    This can result in a situation where the delayed wakeup irq_work can
> >    accidentally dereference EVENT_TOMBSTONE on:
> > 
> > CPU 0                                          CPU 1
> 
> This is missing the most important (and boring) part of the changelog :-)
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
> 
> And I suspect some automatic check will also yell at some point at missing Sob.

Doh, script fail :/

Let me go fix.