]> asedeno.scripts.mit.edu Git - linux.git/commit
perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug
authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:17:16 +0000 (17:17 -0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:10:38 +0000 (11:10 -0300)
commit1a51c5da5acc6c188c917ba572eebac5f8793432
tree6c4ea728e072f9272d75e62234e095d5b7d9d019
parent96167167b6e17b25c0e05ecc31119b73baeab094
perf core: Fix perf_proc_update_handler() bug

The perf_proc_update_handler() handles /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
syctl variable.  When the PMU IRQ handler timing monitoring is disabled, i.e,
when /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent is equal to 0 or 100,
then no modification to sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate is allowed to prevent
possible hang from wrong values.

The problem is that the test to prevent modification is made after the
sysctl variable is modified in perf_proc_update_handler().

You get an error:

  $ echo 10001 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  echo: write error: invalid argument

But the value is still modified causing all sorts of inconsistencies:

  $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  10001

This patch fixes the problem by moving the parsing of the value after
the test.

Committer testing:

  # echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
  # echo 10001 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate
  10001
  #

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1547169436-6266-1-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kernel/events/core.c