[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 093/130] perf: Fix fasync handling on inherited events

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Sep 4 13:08:01 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>

commit fed66e2cdd4f127a43fd11b8d92a99bdd429528c upstream.

Vince reported that the fasync signal stuff doesn't work proper for
inherited events. So fix that.

Installing fasync allocates memory and sets filp->f_flags |= FASYNC,
which upon the demise of the file descriptor ensures the allocation is
freed and state is updated.

Now for perf, we can have the events stick around for a while after the
original FD is dead because of references from child events. So we
cannot copy the fasync pointer around. We can however consistently use
the parent's fasync, as that will be updated.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver at maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho deMelo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: eranian at google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434011521.1495.71.camel@twins
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 40338799dcb0..944d6b5eaf17 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4285,12 +4285,20 @@ static const struct file_operations perf_fops = {
  * to user-space before waking everybody up.
  */
 
+static inline struct fasync_struct **perf_event_fasync(struct perf_event *event)
+{
+	/* only the parent has fasync state */
+	if (event->parent)
+		event = event->parent;
+	return &event->fasync;
+}
+
 void perf_event_wakeup(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	ring_buffer_wakeup(event);
 
 	if (event->pending_kill) {
-		kill_fasync(&event->fasync, SIGIO, event->pending_kill);
+		kill_fasync(perf_event_fasync(event), SIGIO, event->pending_kill);
 		event->pending_kill = 0;
 	}
 }
@@ -5519,7 +5527,7 @@ static int __perf_event_overflow(struct perf_event *event,
 	else
 		perf_event_output(event, data, regs);
 
-	if (event->fasync && event->pending_kill) {
+	if (*perf_event_fasync(event) && event->pending_kill) {
 		event->pending_wakeup = 1;
 		irq_work_queue(&event->pending);
 	}




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