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From: tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, peterz@infradead.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layout
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:24:34 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-f13c12c634e124d5d31f912b969d542a016d6105@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop>

Commit-ID:  f13c12c634e124d5d31f912b969d542a016d6105
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f13c12c634e124d5d31f912b969d542a016d6105
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
AuthorDate: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:43:11 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:12:20 +0100

perf_events: Fix perf_event_attr layout

The miss-alignment of bp_addr created a 32bit hole, causing
different structure packings on 32 and 64 bit machines.

Fix that by moving __reserve_2 into that hole.

Further, remove the useless struct and redundant __bp_reserve
muck.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260902591.8023.781.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 include/linux/perf_event.h |   12 +++---------
 kernel/perf_event.c        |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 64a53f7..5fcbf7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -211,17 +211,11 @@ struct perf_event_attr {
 		__u32		wakeup_watermark; /* bytes before wakeup   */
 	};
 
-	struct { /* Hardware breakpoint info */
-		__u64		bp_addr;
-		__u32		bp_type;
-		__u32		bp_len;
-		__u64		__bp_reserved_1;
-		__u64		__bp_reserved_2;
-	};
-
 	__u32			__reserved_2;
 
-	__u64			__reserved_3;
+	__u64			bp_addr;
+	__u32			bp_type;
+	__u32			bp_len;
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 8823b08..0dd8e5d 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4564,7 +4564,7 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr,
 	if (attr->type >= PERF_TYPE_MAX)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (attr->__reserved_1 || attr->__reserved_2 || attr->__reserved_3)
+	if (attr->__reserved_1 || attr->__reserved_2)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (attr->sample_type & ~(PERF_SAMPLE_MAX-1))

      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-15 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-15 18:36 [PATCH] perf: fix " Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15 18:43 ` [PATCH] perf: fix perf_event_attr layout -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15 19:24   ` tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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