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    hw_breakpoint: Add perf_event_attr fields check in __modify_user_hw_breakpoint() · 705feaf3
    Jiri Olsa authored
    And rename it to modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check().
    
    We are about to use modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() for user space
    breakpoints modification, we must be very strict to check only the
    fields we can change have changed. As Peter explained:
    
     "Suppose someone does:
    
            attr = malloc(sizeof(*attr)); // uninitialized memory
            attr->type = BP;
            attr->bp_addr = new_addr;
            attr->bp_type = bp_type;
            attr->bp_len = bp_len;
            ioctl(fd, PERF_IOC_MOD_ATTR, &attr);
    
      And feeds absolute shite for the rest of the fields.
      Then we later want to extend IOC_MOD_ATTR to allow changing
      attr::sample_type but we can't, because that would break the
      above application."
    
    I'm making this check optional because we already export
    modify_user_hw_breakpoint() and with this check we could
    break existing users.
    Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
    Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Cc: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-6-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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