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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/core.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index c46b02bfe17..6b17ac1b0c2 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -7486,7 +7486,7 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event, static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) { struct perf_event *child_event, *next; - struct perf_event_context *child_ctx; + struct perf_event_context *child_ctx, *parent_ctx; unsigned long flags; if (likely(!child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) { @@ -7511,6 +7511,15 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) raw_spin_lock(&child_ctx->lock); task_ctx_sched_out(child_ctx); child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn] = NULL; + + /* + * In order to avoid freeing: child_ctx->parent_ctx->task + * under perf_event_context::lock, grab another reference. + */ + parent_ctx = child_ctx->parent_ctx; + if (parent_ctx) + get_ctx(parent_ctx); + /* * If this context is a clone; unclone it so it can't get * swapped to another process while we're removing all @@ -7521,6 +7530,13 @@ static void perf_event_exit_task_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn) raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&child_ctx->lock, flags); /* + * Now that we no longer hold perf_event_context::lock, drop + * our extra child_ctx->parent_ctx reference. + */ + if (parent_ctx) + put_ctx(parent_ctx); + + /* * Report the task dead after unscheduling the events so that we * won't get any samples after PERF_RECORD_EXIT. We can however still * get a few PERF_RECORD_READ events. |