perf: event->cpu checking fixes

Oleg Nesterov lkml 1 version Jan 18, 2011 In review

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#	Subject and files	Size	Replies	Applied
1/2	perf: find_get_context: fix the per-cpu-counter check`kernel/perf_event.c`	+1 -1	1 reply
2/2	perf: validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()`kernel/perf_event.c`	+6 -4	1 reply

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Patch	Peter Zijlstra
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2/2	A-b

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/2] perf: event->cpu checking fixes

Quoted 2 lines · Peter Zijlstra

Wasn't this sorted by: 8882135bcd332f294df5455747ea43ba9e6f77ad?

No. This commit only answers my 3rd question, 1-2 are still waiting ;)

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I am reading perf_event.c, but all I found so far is a couple of trivial methods to crash the kernel via sys_perf_event_open(), will report tomorrow...
Ow, that's not too pretty..

Fortunately, this is trivial. Probably 2.6.37 needs these fixes too.

Oleg.

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