Commit 5af75917 authored by Mike Galbraith's avatar Mike Galbraith Committed by Ingo Molnar

perfcounters: fix use after free in perf_release()

running...

  while true; do
    foo -d 1 -f 1 -c 100000 & sleep 1
    kerneltop -d 1 -f 1 -e 1 -c 25000 -p `pidof foo`
  done

  while true; do
    killall foo; killall kerneltop; sleep 2
  done

...in two shells with SLUB_DEBUG enabled produces flood of:
BUG task_struct: Poison overwritten.

Fix the use-after-free bug in perf_release().
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent ffc04672
......@@ -1145,12 +1145,12 @@ static int perf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
mutex_lock(&counter->mutex);
perf_counter_remove_from_context(counter);
put_context(ctx);
mutex_unlock(&counter->mutex);
mutex_unlock(&ctx->mutex);
kfree(counter);
put_context(ctx);
return 0;
}
......
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