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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2014-06-07 23:24:07 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2014-06-07 23:24:07 -0700
commita292241cccb7e20e8b997a9a44177e7c98141859 (patch)
treea0b0bb95e7dce3233a2d8b203f9e326cdec7a00e /kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
parentd49cb7aeebb974713f9f7ab2991352d3050b095b (diff)
parent68807a0c2015cb40df4869e16651f0ce5cc14d52 (diff)
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 3.16.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c22
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
index e854f420e03..c894614de14 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -31,9 +31,25 @@ static int perf_trace_event_perm(struct ftrace_event_call *tp_event,
}
/* The ftrace function trace is allowed only for root. */
- if (ftrace_event_is_function(tp_event) &&
- perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
+ if (ftrace_event_is_function(tp_event)) {
+ if (perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ /*
+ * We don't allow user space callchains for function trace
+ * event, due to issues with page faults while tracing page
+ * fault handler and its overall trickiness nature.
+ */
+ if (!p_event->attr.exclude_callchain_user)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * Same reason to disable user stack dump as for user space
+ * callchains above.
+ */
+ if (p_event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
/* No tracing, just counting, so no obvious leak */
if (!(p_event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW))