From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:09:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~5317^2~2
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9985c20f9e4aee6857c08246b273a3695a52b929;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git

perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check

PMU type id can be allocated dynamically, so perf_event_attr::type check
when copying attribute from userspace to kernel is not valid.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1309421396-17438-4-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 0567e32..b8785e2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -5926,13 +5926,6 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr,
 	if (ret)
 		return -EFAULT;
 
-	/*
-	 * If the type exists, the corresponding creation will verify
-	 * the attr->config.
-	 */
-	if (attr->type >= PERF_TYPE_MAX)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (attr->__reserved_1)
 		return -EINVAL;