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[PATCH 2/4] perf: Fix event inheritance on fork()

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While hunting for clues to a use-after-free, Oleg spotted that
perf_event_init_context() can loose an error value with the result
that fork() can succeed even though we did not fully inherit the perf
event context.

Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Spotted-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: 889ff0150661 ("perf/core: Split context's event group list into pinned and non-pinned lists")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -10820,7 +10819,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 		ret = inherit_task_group(event, parent, parent_ctx,
 					 child, ctxn, &inherited_all);
 		if (ret)
-			break;
+			goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -10836,7 +10835,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 		ret = inherit_task_group(event, parent, parent_ctx,
 					 child, ctxn, &inherited_all);
 		if (ret)
-			break;
+			goto out_unlock;
 	}
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
@@ -10864,6 +10863,7 @@ static int perf_event_init_context(struc
 	}
 
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
+out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
 
 	perf_unpin_context(parent_ctx);

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[PATCH 2/4] perf: Fix event inheritance on fork() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-16 14:10 +0100
  [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: Fix event inheritance on fork() tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2017-03-16 16:30 +0100

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