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authorMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>2010-09-13 13:01:18 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-21 12:45:42 -0700
commit6192bed1743d6a1bfc7c6620b3856f4284e31f4b (patch)
tree380762ede74974df482c8e97dbc0533ad8ae2cde /kernel
parent2d41b2aadaf5d3cb8300fcd418f6ae932902b11b (diff)
hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
commit 068e35eee9ef98eb4cab55181977e24995d273be upstream. 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. Reported-by: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> 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> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-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 4d99512ee149..acc9cbb0eb4a 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ 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, tsk->pid, triggered);
+ return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk),
+ triggered);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);