Commit 3a38bb98 authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song Committed by Daniel Borkmann
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bpf/tracing: fix a deadlock in perf_event_detach_bpf_prog

syzbot reported a possible deadlock in perf_event_detach_bpf_prog.
The error details:
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  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  4.16.0-rc7+ #3 Not tainted
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  syz-executor7/24531 is trying to acquire lock:
   (bpf_event_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<000000008a849b07>] perf_event_detach_bpf_prog+0x92/0x3d0 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:854

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: [<0000000038768f87>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x198/0x280 mm/util.c:353

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

  -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
       __might_fault+0x13a/0x1d0 mm/memory.c:4571
       _copy_to_user+0x2c/0xc0 lib/usercopy.c:25
       copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:155 [inline]
       bpf_prog_array_copy_info+0xf2/0x1c0 kernel/bpf/core.c:1694
       perf_event_quer...
parent 0abf854d
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