From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:33:44 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf_counter: Allow mmap if paranoid checks are turned off X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=459ec28ab404d7afcd512ce9b855959ad301605a;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git perf_counter: Allow mmap if paranoid checks are turned off Before: $ perf sched record -f sleep 1 Error: failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted) After: $ perf sched record -f sleep 1 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.095 MB perf.data (~4161 samples) ] Note, this is only allowed if perfcounter_paranoid is set to the most permissive (non-default) value of -1. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> --- diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index e0d91fdf0c3..667ab25ad3d 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -2315,7 +2315,8 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) lock_limit >>= PAGE_SHIFT; locked = vma->vm_mm->locked_vm + extra; - if ((locked > lock_limit) && !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) { + if ((locked > lock_limit) && perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && + !capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK)) { ret = -EPERM; goto unlock; }