hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
authorMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:01:18 +0000 (13:01 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:43:59 +0000 (10:43 +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.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org>
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>
LKML-Reference: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

index 3b2aaff..6122f02 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);