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Date:	Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:32:08 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Knut Petersen <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, Knut_Petersen@...nline.de, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf:
  Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

Commit-ID:  723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11
Author:     Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:29:37 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:06:07 +0200

perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate

/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept
negative values as well as 0.

Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a
divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler.

This patch enforces a lower limit of 1.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 kernel/sysctl.c      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index d49a9d2..b25d65c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int perf_proc_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
 		void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
 		loff_t *ppos)
 {
-	int ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+	int ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
 	if (ret || !write)
 		return ret;
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index b2f06f3..2a9db91 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,7 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = {
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate),
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= perf_proc_update_handler,
+		.extra1		= &one,
 	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "perf_cpu_time_max_percent",
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