hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
authorMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:01:18 +0000 (13:01 -0700)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:42:59 +0000 (04:42 +0200)
Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces
because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current
namespace.

(See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 )

This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the
best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally
is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches
will show a better solution.

Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> for doing
the bulk of the work finding this bug.

Reported-by: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 2.6.33-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

index d71a987fd2bf2ba5e698f9b69fccb59db4a1bb30..c7c2aed9e2dcc2e52669e7d3880be0666c496bff 100644 (file)
@@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
                            perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
                            struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-       return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk->pid, triggered);
+       return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk),
+                                               triggered);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);