linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] perf: event->cpu checking fixes

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Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:09:42 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] perf: event->cpu checking fixes

On 01/17, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Wasn't this sorted by: 8882135bcd332f294df5455747ea43ba9e6f77ad?

No. This commit only answers my 3rd question, 1-2 are still waiting ;)

> > I am reading perf_event.c, but all I found so far is a couple of trivial
> > methods to crash the kernel via sys_perf_event_open(), will report
> > tomorrow...
>
> Ow, that's not too pretty..

Fortunately, this is trivial. Probably 2.6.37 needs these fixes too.

Oleg.

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