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    perf/ring_buffer: Prevent concurent ring buffer access · cd6fb677
    Jiri Olsa authored
    Some of the scheduling tracepoints allow the perf_tp_event
    code to write to ring buffer under different cpu than the
    code is running on.
    
    This results in corrupted ring buffer data demonstrated in
    following perf commands:
    
      # perf record -e 'sched:sched_switch,sched:sched_wakeup' perf bench sched messaging
      # Running 'sched/messaging' benchmark:
      # 20 sender and receiver processes per group
      # 10 groups == 400 processes run
    
           Total time: 0.383 [sec]
      [ perf record: Woken up 8 times to write data ]
      0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 4.825 MB perf.data (29669 samples) ]
    
      # perf report --stdio
      0x42b890 [0]: failed to process type: -1765585640
    
    The reason for the corruption are some of the scheduling tracepoints,
    that have __perf_task dfined and thus allow to store data to another
    cpu ring buffer:
    
      sched_waking
      sched_wakeup
      sched_wakeup_new
      sched_stat_wait
      sched_stat_sleep
      sched_stat_iowait
      sched_stat_blocked
    
    The perf_tp_event function first store samples for current cpu
    related events defined for tracepoint:
    
        hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(event, head, hlist_entry)
          perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
    
    And then iterates events of the 'task' and store the sample
    for any task's event that passes tracepoint checks:
    
      ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[perf_sw_context]);
    
      list_for_each_entry_rcu(event, &ctx->event_list, event_entry) {
        if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
          continue;
        if (event->attr.config != entry->type)
          continue;
    
        perf_swevent_event(event, count, &data, regs);
      }
    
    Above code can race with same code running on another cpu,
    ending up with 2 cpus trying to store under the same ring
    buffer, which is specifically not allowed.
    
    This patch prevents the problem, by allowing only events with the same
    current cpu to receive the event.
    
    NOTE: this requires the use of (per-task-)per-cpu buffers for this
    feature to work; perf-record does this.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    [peterz: small edits to Changelog]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
    Fixes: e6dab5ff ("perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events")
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180923161343.GB15054@kravaSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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