perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close()
authorAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:59:25 +0000 (14:59 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 17:29:54 +0000 (10:29 -0700)
commitd156b47c4242843096e4a13f8ace5a0626bde3e9
tree517ce331697fce4a5aadba64df99919e60235c53
parent9b52a3b313497af37dcdba4ba4c0c95809db525c
perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close()

commit a6fa941d94b411bbd2b6421ffbde6db3c93e65ab upstream.

Don't mess with file refcounts (or keep a reference to file, for
that matter) in perf_event.  Use explicit refcount of its own
instead.  Deal with the race between the final reference to event
going away and new children getting created for it by use of
atomic_long_inc_not_zero() in inherit_event(); just have the
latter free what it had allocated and return NULL, that works
out just fine (children of siblings of something doomed are
created as singletons, same as if the child of leader had been
created and immediately killed).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120820135925.GG23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c