perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:10:32 +0000 (17:10 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:14:48 +0000 (15:14 -0800)
commitc2e884b07e6f182a66514e21eebe9260dfa20a4e
tree9a59453df65801728a76d098759a4017ab46a999
parentccb6b70738a85a74512d1b74539d22d61120acbf
perf: Validate cpu early in perf_event_alloc()

commit 66832eb4baaaa9abe4c993ddf9113a79e39b9915 upstream.

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>
LKML-Reference: <20110118161032.GC693@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/perf_event.c