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From: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun2@huawei.com>
To: <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <acme@kernel.org>, <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	<alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>, <dvyukov@google.com>,
	<elver@google.com>, <irogers@google.com>,
	<james.clark@linaro.org>, <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>, <luogengkun2@huawei.com>,
	<mark.rutland@arm.com>, <mingo@redhat.com>, <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] perf/core: Fix race between perf_event_exit_task() and perf_pending_task()
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:50:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260920075026.990582-1-luogengkun2@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260918095049.GL1837346@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net>

A race condition exists between perf_event_exit_task() and
perf_pending_task() during begin_new_exec().

During begin_new_exec(), perf_event_exit_task() may be called, and the
PF_EXITING flag is not set on task. So perf_sigtrap() continues to execute
and triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(event->ctx->task != current).

Since both task exit and exec paths can call perf_event_exit_task() which
sets ctx->task to TASK_TOMBSTONE, fix this by explicitly checking if
event->ctx->task equals TASK_TOMBSTONE and dropping the redundant
PF_EXITING check.

Fixes: 97ba62b27867 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events")
Signed-off-by: Luo Gengkun <luogengkun2@huawei.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
- Drop the redundant PF_EXITING check and only check for TASK_TOMBSTONE.
- Update the code comment to reflect this unified exec/exit race protection.
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index fe33fe15689d..8f4b61a135e8 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7616,9 +7616,11 @@ static void perf_sigtrap(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Both perf_pending_task() and perf_pending_irq() can race with the
-	 * task exiting.
+	 * task exiting or exec-ing. We can determine if such a race has
+	 * occurred by checking if perf_event_exit_task(), which will set
+	 * ctx->task to TASK_TOMBSTONE, has already been called.
 	 */
-	if (current->flags & PF_EXITING)
+	if (event->ctx->task == TASK_TOMBSTONE)
 		return;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.34.1


      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-20  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-16  3:34 [PATCH] perf/core: Fix race between perf_event_exit_task and perf_pending_task Luo Gengkun
2026-09-15 21:34 ` Ian Rogers
2026-09-18  9:02   ` Dmitry Vyukov
2026-09-18  9:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-09-20  7:50   ` Luo Gengkun [this message]

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