[150/151] perf_event: Fix incorrect range check on cpu number

Greg KH
2009-12-17T04:06:34Z

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

commit 0f624e7e5625f4c30c836b7a5decfe2553582391 upstream.

It is quite legitimate for CPUs to be numbered sparsely, meaning
that it possible for an online CPU to have a number which is
greater than the total count of possible CPUs.

Currently find_get_context() has a sanity check on the cpu
number where it checks it against num_possible_cpus(). This
test can fail for a legitimate cpu number if the
cpu_possible_mask is sparsely populated.

This fixes the problem by checking the CPU number against
nr_cpumask_bits instead, since that is the appropriate check to
ensure that the cpu number is same to pass to cpu_isset()
subsequently.

Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Tested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091215084032.GA18661@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ static struct perf_event_context *find_g
if (perf_paranoid_cpu() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);

- if (cpu < 0 || cpu > num_possible_cpus())
+ if (cpu < 0 || cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

/*