perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check
authorTan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@huawei.com>
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 06:04:39 +0000 (14:04 +0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:56:33 +0000 (08:56 +0100)
commit1572e45a924f254d9570093abde46430c3172e3d
treeda2db02ffa3c27b9d5d8b26c67773c7b4baf6edb
parent7bbba0eb1af34694868d028b80475981f90e6bee
perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check

Use "proc_dointvec_minmax" instead of "proc_dointvec" to check the input
value from user-space.

If not, we can set a big value and some vars will overflow like
"sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate" which will cause a lot of unexpected
problems.

Signed-off-by: Tan Xiaojun <tanxiaojun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487829879-56237-1-git-send-email-tanxiaojun@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c