From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:08:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: perf: Fix orphan hole
X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-4.10.0-19.21~4016^2~15
X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78cd2c748f459739ff864dd9308c0f6caf7f6e41;p=mirror_ubuntu-artful-kernel.git

perf: Fix orphan hole

We should set event->owner before we install the event,
otherwise there is a hole where the target task can fork() and
we'll not inherit the event because it thinks the event is
orphaned.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 9de4d352ba8c..6759f2a332d7 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8489,6 +8489,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	perf_event__header_size(event);
 	perf_event__id_header_size(event);
 
+	event->owner = current;
+
 	perf_install_in_context(ctx, event, event->cpu);
 	perf_unpin_context(ctx);
 
@@ -8498,8 +8500,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 
 	put_online_cpus();
 
-	event->owner = current;
-
 	mutex_lock(&current->perf_event_mutex);
 	list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, &current->perf_event_list);
 	mutex_unlock(&current->perf_event_mutex);