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Thaumy Cheng c418d8b4d7 perf/core: Fix missing read event generation on task exit
For events with inherit_stat enabled, a "read" event will be generated
to collect per task event counts on task exit.

The call chain is as follows:

do_exit
  -> perf_event_exit_task
    -> perf_event_exit_task_context
      -> perf_event_exit_event
        -> perf_remove_from_context
          -> perf_child_detach
            -> sync_child_event
              -> perf_event_read_event

However, the child event context detaches the task too early in
perf_event_exit_task_context, which causes sync_child_event to never
generate the read event in this case, since child_event->ctx->task is
always set to TASK_TOMBSTONE. Fix that by moving context lock section
backward to ensure ctx->task is not set to TASK_TOMBSTONE before
generating the read event.

Because perf_event_free_task calls perf_event_exit_task_context with
exit = false to tear down all child events from the context, and the
task never lived, accessing the task PID can lead to a use-after-free.

To fix that, let sync_child_event read task from argument and move the
call to the only place it should be triggered to avoid the effect of
setting ctx->task to TASK_TOMESTONE, and add a task parameter to
perf_event_exit_event to trigger the sync_child_event properly when
needed.

This bug can be reproduced by running "perf record -s" and attaching to
any program that generates perf events in its child tasks. If we check
the result with "perf report -T", the last line of the report will leave
an empty table like "# PID  TID", which is expected to contain the
per-task event counts by design.

Fixes: ef54c1a476 ("perf: Rework perf_event_exit_event()")
Signed-off-by: Thaumy Cheng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Rogers <[email protected]>
Cc: James Clark <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
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