From 78cd2c748f459739ff864dd9308c0f6caf7f6e41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 14:08:45 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') 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(¤t->perf_event_mutex); list_add_tail(&event->owner_entry, ¤t->perf_event_list); mutex_unlock(¤t->perf_event_mutex); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b