From patchwork Wed May 15 10:33:59 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 244014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E592C00AB for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 20:35:41 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UcZ3V-0002iC-Qj; Wed, 15 May 2013 10:35:33 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UcZ21-0001qH-03 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 15 May 2013 10:34:00 +0000 Received: from bl16-162-242.dsl.telepac.pt ([188.81.162.242] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcZ20-0004VU-Je; Wed, 15 May 2013 10:34:00 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Peter Zijlstra Subject: [ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for" has been added to staging queue Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 11:33:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1368614039-24469-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , eranian@google.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From bc03682e09c9909ec48a8ee3697e19434a96a7a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 14:11:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL commit 7cc23cd6c0c7d7f4bee057607e7ce01568925717 upstream. We should always have proper privileges when requesting kernel data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503121256.230745028@chello.nl [ Fix build error reported by fengguang.wu@intel.com, propagate error code back. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v0x9ky3ahzr6nm3c6ilwrili@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c index 62a93a4..fd1a099 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_lbr.c @@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ void intel_pmu_lbr_read(void) * - in case there is no HW filter * - in case the HW filter has errata or limitations */ -static void intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(struct perf_event *event) +static int intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(struct perf_event *event) { u64 br_type = event->attr.branch_sample_type; int mask = 0; @@ -318,8 +318,11 @@ static void intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(struct perf_event *event) if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER) mask |= X86_BR_USER; - if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL) + if (br_type & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL) { + if (perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EACCES; mask |= X86_BR_KERNEL; + } /* we ignore BRANCH_HV here */ @@ -339,6 +342,8 @@ static void intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(struct perf_event *event) * be used by fixup code for some CPU */ event->hw.branch_reg.reg = mask; + + return 0; } /* @@ -386,7 +391,9 @@ int intel_pmu_setup_lbr_filter(struct perf_event *event) /* * setup SW LBR filter */ - intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(event); + ret = intel_pmu_setup_sw_lbr_filter(event); + if (ret) + return ret; /* * setup HW LBR filter, if any