From 38a81da2205f94e8a2a834b51a6b99c91fc7c2e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Helsley Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:01:20 -0700 Subject: perf events: Clean up pid passing The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robin Green Cc: Prasad Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/hw_breakpoint.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/hw_breakpoint.c') diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c index 6122f02cfedf..3b714e839c10 100644 --- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c +++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c @@ -433,8 +433,7 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, perf_overflow_handler_t triggered, struct task_struct *tsk) { - return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk), - triggered); + return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk, triggered); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint); @@ -516,7 +515,7 @@ register_wide_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr, get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { pevent = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_events, cpu); - bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, -1, triggered); + bp = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, cpu, NULL, triggered); *pevent = bp; -- cgit v1.2.2