linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: __perf_evlist__mmap: Fix errno value on failed map.

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Date:	Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:16 -0200
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc:	Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...hage.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf: __perf_evlist__mmap: Fix errno value on failed
 map.

Em Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:33:30AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...hage.com> writes:
> > On failure, perf_evlist__mmap_per_{cpu,thread} will try to munmap()
> > every map that doesn't have a NULL base. This will fail with EINVAL if
> > one of them has base == MAP_FAILED, clobbering errno, so that
> > perf_evlist__map will return EINVAL on any failure regardless of the
> > root cause.
> >
> > Fix this by resetting failed maps to a NULL base.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...hage.com>

> Thanks for fixing this. I posted a basically same patch for this [1]
> last week, but it seems my patch doesn't get included yet (right?),
> and your patch looks bit simpler. So Arnaldo, I'm totally fine if you
> decide to take this instead of mine.

Ok, and thank you both for the fixes, I was out on a business trip so a
bit backlogged right now, will get to your patches as soon as possible,

Thanks!

- Arnaldo
 
> Thanks.
> Namhyung Kim
> 
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/12/275
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