linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug

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Message-Id: <f63454af09fb1915717251570423eb9ddd338340.1284407762.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:01:18 -0700
From:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Robin Green <greenrd@...enrd.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug

Hardware breakpoints can't be registered within pid namespaces
because tsk->pid is passed rather than the pid in the current
namespace.

(See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 )

This is a quick fix demonstrating the problem but is not the
best method of solving the problem since passing pids internally
is not the best way to avoid pid namespace bugs. Subsequent patches
will show a better solution.

Much thanks to Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> for doing the
bulk of the work finding this bug.

Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@...enrd.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc: Prasad <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
---
 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
index 3b2aaff..6122f02 100644
--- a/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
+++ b/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c
@@ -433,7 +433,8 @@ register_user_hw_breakpoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr,
 			    perf_overflow_handler_t triggered,
 			    struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, tsk->pid, triggered);
+	return perf_event_create_kernel_counter(attr, -1, task_pid_vnr(tsk),
+						triggered);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_user_hw_breakpoint);
 
-- 
1.6.3.3

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