From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon , Catalin Marinas Subject: [ 019/117] arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:18:05 -0700 Message-Id: <20130925001742.947969670@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130925001740.833541979@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130925001740.833541979@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Will Deacon commit 8455e6ec70f33b0e8c3ffd47067e00481f09f454 upstream. This is a port of cb2d8b342aa0 ("ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec") to arm64, which fixes the event validation checking so that events in the OFF state are still considered when enable_on_exec is true. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -325,7 +325,10 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_ if (is_software_event(event)) return 1; - if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) + if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF) + return 1; + + if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF && !event->attr.enable_on_exec) return 1; return armpmu->get_event_idx(hw_events, &fake_event) >= 0;