* Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 01:22:57AM -0700, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Commit-ID: 0f5c78b5f33ce940034743e5f9485fc81ad75b0f
> > Gitweb:
> > http://git.kernel.org/tip/0f5c78b5f33ce940034743e5f9485fc81ad75b0f
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 3 May 2013 14:11:25 +0200
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > CommitDate: Sat, 4 May 2013 08:37:48 +0200
> >
> > perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL
> >
> > We should always have proper privileges when requesting kernel
> > data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
> > index de341d4..0e92871 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c
> > @@ -318,8 +318,11 @@ static void intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(struct
> > perf_event *event)
> > if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER)
> > mask |= X86_BR_USER;
> >
> > - if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL)
> > + if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL) {
> > + if (perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > + return -EACCES;
>
> It is probably not too late to amend this patch and remove the "-EACCES":
>
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c: In function
> ???intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter???:
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c:323:4: warning: ???return??? with
> a value, in function returning void [enabled by default]
Well, the better fix is to propagate that error condition down instead of
ignoring it.
Since it was the head commit for a tree others don't typically pull and
base development work off I amended it.
Thanks,
Ingo
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