perf: Handle compat ioctl
authorPawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:03:32 +0000 (16:03 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:42:13 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commitb3f207855f57b9c8f43a547a801340bb5cbc59e5
tree81845f485708aec5c07e52e119bb48a2bda5985a
parentf96f56780ca584930bb3a2769d73fd9a101bcbbe
perf: Handle compat ioctl

When running a 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel (eg. i386
application on x86_64 kernel or 32-bit arm userspace on arm64
kernel) some of the perf ioctls must be treated with special
care, as they have a pointer size encoded in the command.

For example, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID in 32-bit world will be encoded
as 0x80042407, but 64-bit kernel will expect 0x80082407. In
result the ioctl will fail returning -ENOTTY.

This patch solves the problem by adding code fixing up the
size as compat_ioctl file operation.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402671812-9078-1-git-send-email-pawel.moll@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c