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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Two kernel side fixes: a kprobes fix and a perf_remove_from_context()
  fix (which does not yet fix the migration bug which is WIP)"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()
  kprobes/x86: Free 'optinsn' cache when range check fails
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Linus Torvalds committed Sep 19, 2014
2 parents 7a5e878 + 3577af7 commit 598a0c7
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/opt.c
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Expand Up @@ -338,8 +338,10 @@ int arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op)
* a relative jump.
*/
rel = (long)op->optinsn.insn - (long)op->kp.addr + RELATIVEJUMP_SIZE;
if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff)
if (abs(rel) > 0x7fffffff) {
__arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op, 0);
return -ERANGE;
}

buf = (u8 *)op->optinsn.insn;

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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions kernel/events/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -1524,6 +1524,11 @@ static void perf_remove_from_context(struct perf_event *event, bool detach_group
*/
if (ctx->is_active) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
/*
* Reload the task pointer, it might have been changed by
* a concurrent perf_event_context_sched_out().
*/
task = ctx->task;
goto retry;
}

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*/
if (ctx->is_active) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->lock);
/*
* Reload the task pointer, it might have been changed by
* a concurrent perf_event_context_sched_out().
*/
task = ctx->task;
goto retry;
}

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