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    perf: Use css_tryget() to avoid propping up css refcount · fa59eed8
    Salman Qazi authored
    commit 9c5da09d upstream.
    
    An rmdir pushes css's ref count to zero.  However, if the associated
    directory is open at the time, the dentry ref count is non-zero.  If
    the fd for this directory is then passed into perf_event_open, it
    does a css_get().  This bounces the ref count back up from zero.  This
    is a problem by itself.  But what makes it turn into a crash is the
    fact that we end up doing an extra dput, since we perform a dput
    when css_put sees the ref count go down to zero.
    
    css_tryget() does not fall into that trap. So, we use that instead.
    
    Reproduction test-case for the bug:
    
     #include <unistd.h>
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <sys/stat.h>
     #include <fcntl.h>
     #include <linux/unistd.h>
     #include <linux/perf_event.h>
     #include <string.h>
     #include <errno.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
    
     #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP    (1U << 2)
    
     int perf_event_open(struct perf_event_attr *hw_event_uptr,
                         pid_t pid, int cpu, int group_fd, unsigned long flags) {
             return syscall(__NR_perf_event_open,hw_event_uptr, pid, cpu,
                     group_fd, flags);
     }
    
     /*
      * Directly poke at the perf_event bug, since it's proving hard to repro
      * depending on where in the kernel tree.  what moved?
      */
     int main(int argc, char **argv)
     {
            int fd;
            struct perf_event_attr attr;
            memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(attr));
            attr.exclude_kernel = 1;
            attr.size = sizeof(attr);
            mkdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", 0777);
            fd = open("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah", O_RDONLY);
            perror("open");
            rmdir("/dev/cgroup/perf_event/blah");
            sleep(2);
            perf_event_open(&attr, fd, 0, -1,  PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
            perror("perf_event_open");
            close(fd);
            return 0;
     }
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSalman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120614223108.1025.2503.stgit@dungbeetle.mtv.corp.google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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