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perf/core: Fix pmus_lock vs. pmus_srcu ordering
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:39:11 +0000 (14:39 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:02:04 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 2565e42539b120b81a68a58da961ce5d1e34eac8 ]

Commit a63fbed776c7 ("perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order")
placed pmus_lock inside pmus_srcu, this makes perf_pmu_unregister()
trip lockdep.

Move the locking about such that only pmu_idr and pmus (list) are
modified while holding pmus_lock. This avoids doing synchronize_srcu()
while holding pmus_lock and all is well again.

Fixes: a63fbed776c7 ("perf/tracing/cpuhotplug: Fix locking order")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104135517.679556858@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c

index a0e1d2124727e115f73c3bec560d95f017daa19d..5fff74c736063c9be4af20bb2fc8863e3c71b413 100644 (file)
@@ -11846,6 +11846,8 @@ void perf_pmu_unregister(struct pmu *pmu)
 {
        mutex_lock(&pmus_lock);
        list_del_rcu(&pmu->entry);
+       idr_remove(&pmu_idr, pmu->type);
+       mutex_unlock(&pmus_lock);
 
        /*
         * We dereference the pmu list under both SRCU and regular RCU, so
@@ -11855,7 +11857,6 @@ void perf_pmu_unregister(struct pmu *pmu)
        synchronize_rcu();
 
        free_percpu(pmu->pmu_disable_count);
-       idr_remove(&pmu_idr, pmu->type);
        if (pmu_bus_running && pmu->dev && pmu->dev != PMU_NULL_DEV) {
                if (pmu->nr_addr_filters)
                        device_remove_file(pmu->dev, &dev_attr_nr_addr_filters);
@@ -11863,7 +11864,6 @@ void perf_pmu_unregister(struct pmu *pmu)
                put_device(pmu->dev);
        }
        free_pmu_context(pmu);
-       mutex_unlock(&pmus_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_pmu_unregister);