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perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()

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Starting from perf_event_alloc()->perf_init_event(), the kernel
assumes that event->cpu is either -1 or the valid CPU number.

Change perf_event_alloc() to validate this argument early. This
also means we can remove the similar check in
find_get_context().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20110118161032.GC693@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Oleg Nesterov 2011-01-18 17:10:32 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 22a4ec7290
commit 66832eb4ba
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -2233,9 +2233,6 @@ find_get_context(struct pmu *pmu, struct task_struct *task, int cpu)
if (perf_paranoid_cpu() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
if (cpu < 0 || cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
/*
* We could be clever and allow to attach a event to an
* offline CPU and activate it when the CPU comes up, but
@ -5541,6 +5538,11 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
struct hw_perf_event *hwc;
long err;
if ((unsigned)cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
if (!task || cpu != -1)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
event = kzalloc(sizeof(*event), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!event)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);