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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: perf: use-after-free in perf_release
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:04:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170307140414.GA31678@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306131459.GC6515@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 03/06, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> and this is a failed fork().
>
>
> However, inherited events don't have a filedesc to fput(), and
> similarly, a task that fails for has never been visible to attach a perf
> event to because it never hits the pid-hash.

Yes, it is not visible to find_task_by_vpid() until copy_process() does
attach_pid(PIDTYPE_PID), and copy_process() can't fail after that.

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-06  9:57 perf: use-after-free in perf_release Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-06 12:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-06 12:17   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-06 12:23     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-06 12:27       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-06 12:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-06 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-06 13:34   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-07  9:08     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-07  9:26       ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-07  9:37         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-07  9:43           ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-07 10:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-07 13:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-07 13:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-07 14:04   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-03-07 14:17     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2017-03-07 16:51       ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-07 17:29         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 12:55         ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 13:24           ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-14 13:47             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 14:03           ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-14 14:07             ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 14:30               ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-14 15:02                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 15:07                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 15:37                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-14 15:46                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 15:19                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-14 15:26                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-14 15:59                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-15 16:43                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-16 12:05                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 13:57                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 16:41                             ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-03-16 12:47 [PATCH 0/4] perf patches Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 12:47 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf: Fix use-after-free in perf_release() Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 15:19   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 12:47 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf: Fix event inheritance on fork() Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 15:19   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 12:47 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf: Simplify perf_event_free_task() Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 15:20   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 12:47 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf: Better explain the inherit magic Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 15:21   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf/core: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2017-03-16 13:20 ` [PATCH 0/4] perf patches Ingo Molnar

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