[PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Protect reading thread's namespace

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Wed May 22 2019 - 01:35:49 EST


It seems that the current code lacks holding the namespace lock in
thread__namespaces(). Otherwise it can see inconsistent results.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/thread.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/thread.c b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
index 403045a2bbea..b413ba5b9835 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/thread.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/thread.c
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ void thread__put(struct thread *thread)
}
}

-struct namespaces *thread__namespaces(const struct thread *thread)
+static struct namespaces *__thread__namespaces(const struct thread *thread)
{
if (list_empty(&thread->namespaces_list))
return NULL;
@@ -141,10 +141,21 @@ struct namespaces *thread__namespaces(const struct thread *thread)
return list_first_entry(&thread->namespaces_list, struct namespaces, list);
}

+struct namespaces *thread__namespaces(const struct thread *thread)
+{
+ struct namespaces *ns;
+
+ down_read((struct rw_semaphore *)&thread->namespaces_lock);
+ ns = __thread__namespaces(thread);
+ up_read((struct rw_semaphore *)&thread->namespaces_lock);
+
+ return ns;
+}
+
static int __thread__set_namespaces(struct thread *thread, u64 timestamp,
struct namespaces_event *event)
{
- struct namespaces *new, *curr = thread__namespaces(thread);
+ struct namespaces *new, *curr = __thread__namespaces(thread);

new = namespaces__new(event);
if (!new)
--
2.21.0.1020.gf2820cf01a-goog