6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org
commit 0fe8813baf4b2e865d3b2c735ce1a15b86002c74 upstream.
The perf_iterate_ctx() function performs RCU list traversal but currently lacks RCU read lock protection. This causes lockdep warnings when running perf probe with unshare(1) under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage kernel/events/core.c:8168 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
Call Trace: lockdep_rcu_suspicious ? perf_event_addr_filters_apply perf_iterate_ctx perf_event_exec begin_new_exec ? load_elf_phdrs load_elf_binary ? lock_acquire ? find_held_lock ? bprm_execve bprm_execve do_execveat_common.isra.0 __x64_sys_execve do_syscall_64 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
This protection was previously present but was removed in commit bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling"). Add back the necessary rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair around perf_iterate_ctx() call in perf_event_exec().
[ mingo: Use scoped_guard() as suggested by Peter ]
Fixes: bd2756811766 ("perf: Rewrite core context handling") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250117-fix_perf_rcu-v1-1-13cb9210fc6a@debian.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8240,7 +8240,8 @@ void perf_event_exec(void)
perf_event_enable_on_exec(ctx); perf_event_remove_on_exec(ctx); - perf_iterate_ctx(ctx, perf_event_addr_filters_exec, NULL, true); + scoped_guard(rcu) + perf_iterate_ctx(ctx, perf_event_addr_filters_exec, NULL, true);
perf_unpin_context(ctx); put_ctx(ctx);