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perf: Fix tear-down of inherited group events

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When destroying inherited events, we need to destroy groups too,
otherwise the event iteration in perf_event_exit_task_context() will
miss group siblings and we leak events with all the consequences.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35+
LKML-Reference: <1300196470.2203.61.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra 2011-03-15 14:37:10 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent ee643c4179
commit 38b435b16c
1 changed files with 8 additions and 5 deletions
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@ -6722,17 +6722,20 @@ __perf_event_exit_task(struct perf_event *child_event,
struct perf_event_context *child_ctx,
struct task_struct *child)
{
struct perf_event *parent_event;
if (child_event->parent) {
raw_spin_lock_irq(&child_ctx->lock);
perf_group_detach(child_event);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&child_ctx->lock);
}
perf_remove_from_context(child_event);
parent_event = child_event->parent;
/*
* It can happen that parent exits first, and has events
* It can happen that the parent exits first, and has events
* that are still around due to the child reference. These
* events need to be zapped - but otherwise linger.
* events need to be zapped.
*/
if (parent_event) {
if (child_event->parent) {
sync_child_event(child_event, child);
free_event(child_event);
}