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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.

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>
Cc: 2.6.33-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org>
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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Matt Helsley 2010-09-13 13:01:18 -07:00 committed by Frederic Weisbecker
parent 89e45aac42
commit 068e35eee9
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ 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);