perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()
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>
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index a962b19..67d9bd7 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2233,9 +2233,6 @@
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 @@
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);
@@ -5589,7 +5591,7 @@
if (!overflow_handler && parent_event)
overflow_handler = parent_event->overflow_handler;
-
+
event->overflow_handler = overflow_handler;
if (attr->disabled)
