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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
	He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>, Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:53:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5629065C.6020103@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151022135745.GM3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 10/22/15 6:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:58:03PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
>> index 64754bfecd70..0b6333265872 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
>> @@ -3258,7 +3258,7 @@ static inline u64 perf_event_count(struct perf_event *event)
>>   u64 perf_event_read_local(struct perf_event *event)
>>   {
>>   	unsigned long flags;
>> -	u64 val;
>> +	u64 val = -EINVAL;
>
> No, you cannot do this, -EINVAL is a valid count value. You simply must
> not call this function on !local events, ever.

agree. Will keep perf_event_read_local() as-is and do all safety
checks on bpf side.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21 22:58 [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  4:49 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  5:00   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  5:30     ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  5:31 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22  6:21   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22  7:39     ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22 15:51       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-10-22 12:30 ` Wangnan (F)
2015-10-22 12:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-22 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-22 15:53   ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]

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