perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate
authorKnut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 12:29:37 +0000 (14:29 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:03:27 +0000 (12:03 -0700)
commit02f98e3e36da106338b7c732fed516420fb20e2a
tree1b4a7ae28473392c448f81a2de59900357cc4dec
parenta4a108e8d7fba75a2dbfbe0818a3a4dec79d6d57
perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

commit 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 upstream.

/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.

Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.

This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/events/core.c
kernel/sysctl.c