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authorMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>2010-09-13 16:01:18 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-09-15 04:43:59 -0400
commitd958077d007d98125766d11e82da2fd6497b91d6 (patch)
treec71106f6308a16bd50fc3f58338025c7848e5ec1 /kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
parent64a48d90149bb7007275fac13eaa4cb8d8ce12ea (diff)
hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current namespace. (See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 ) This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches will show a better solution. Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing the bulk of the work finding this bug. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/hw_breakpoint.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/hw_breakpoint.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 3b2aaffb65f0..6122f02cfedf 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
433 perf_overflow_handler_t triggered, 433 perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
434 struct task_struct *tsk) 434 struct task_struct *tsk)
435{ 435{
436 return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk->pid, triggered); 436 return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk),
437 triggered);
437} 438}
438EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint); 439EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);
439 440