From 63bfd7384b119409685a17d5c58f0b56e5dc03da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pekka Enberg Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 21:29:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf_events: Fix perf_counter_mmap() hook in mprotect() As pointed out by Linus, commit dab5855 ("perf_counter: Add mmap event hooks to mprotect()") is fundamentally wrong as mprotect_fixup() can free 'vma' due to merging. Fix the problem by moving perf_event_mmap() hook to mprotect_fixup(). Note: there's another successful return path from mprotect_fixup() if old flags equal to new flags. We don't, however, need to call perf_event_mmap() there because 'perf' already knows the VMA is executable. Reported-by: Dave Jones Analyzed-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed