From 828b6f0e26170938d617e99a17177453be4d77a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:59:04 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix NULL deref Dan reported: 1229 if (ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE || 1230 !atomic_inc_not_zero(&ctx->refcount)) { 1231 raw_spin_unlock(&ctx->lock); 1232 ctx = NULL; ^^^^^^^^^^ ctx is NULL. 1233 } 1234 1235 WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->task != task); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The patch adds a NULL dereference. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vince Weaver Fixes: 63b6da39bb38 ("perf: Fix perf_event_exit_task() race") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 1d243fadfd12..fe97f95f204e 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -1230,9 +1230,9 @@ retry: !atomic_inc_not_zero(&ctx->refcount)) { raw_spin_unlock(&ctx->lock); ctx = NULL; + } else { + WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->task != task); } - - WARN_ON_ONCE(ctx->task != task); } rcu_read_unlock(); if (!ctx)