Re: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: asm/8267

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 04:59:24PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:55:56PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > so I was tracing a small .c program like so:
> > 
> > $ ./perf record ~/test/asm
> > 
> > and here's what got spewed in dmesg. Kernel is plain -rc4. Any pending
> > fixes in tip I should try?
> > 
> > [ 3700.194208] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: asm/8333
> > [ 3700.194226] caller is perf_event_task_ctx+0x55/0x140
> 
> Ok, here's the call stack I was able to reconstruct:
> 
> perf_event_exit_task()
> |->perf_event_exit_task_context()
>    |-> perf_event_task()
>        |-> perf_event_task_event()
> 	   |-> perf_event_task_ctx()
> 	       |-> perf_event_task_match()
> 		   |-> event_filter_match()
> 		       |-> smp_processor_id() -> debug_smp_processor_id()

Ok, jolsa just rootcaused it: It is caused by
d610d98b5de6860feb21539726e9af7c9094151c calling perf_event_task_ctx()
outside of the preempt-safe protection.

There's a straightforward fix below, what to people think?

--
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 7b4a55d41efc..f3bb3384a106 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -4455,8 +4455,11 @@ static void perf_event_task_event(struct perf_task_event *task_event)
 next:
 		put_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
 	}
+
+	preempt_disable();
 	if (task_event->task_ctx)
 		perf_event_task_ctx(task_event->task_ctx, task_event);
+	preempt_enable();
 
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }


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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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