linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf_events: fix bogus copy_to_user() in perf_event_read

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:36:20 +0100
From:	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	eranian@...il.com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...e.hu,
	paulus@...ba.org, perfmon2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH] perf_events: fix bogus copy_to_user() in perf_event_read_group()

       When using an event group, the value and id for non leaders events were
       wrong due to invalid offset into the outgoing buffer.

       Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>

---
 perf_event.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 0b0d5f7..8306127 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ static int perf_event_read_group(struct perf_event *event,

               size = n * sizeof(u64);

-               if (copy_to_user(buf + size, values, size)) {
+               if (copy_to_user(buf + ret, values, size)) {
                       ret = -EFAULT;
                       goto unlock;
               }
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