Commit-ID:  1f4ee5038f0c1ef95f8e6d47ad6623e006b5bce1
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1f4ee5038f0c1ef95f8e6d47ad6623e006b5bce1
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:59:34 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Wed, 7 May 2014 13:44:17 +0200

perf: Ensure consistent inherit state in groups

Make sure all events in a group have the same inherit state. It was
possible for group leaders to have inherit set while sibling events
would not have inherit set.

In this case we'd still inherit the siblings, leading to some
non-fatal weirdness.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 09866a3..1de0d70 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -7081,20 +7081,26 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
                }
        }
 
+       if (task && group_leader &&
+           group_leader->attr.inherit != attr.inherit) {
+               err = -EINVAL;
+               goto err_task;
+       }
+
        get_online_cpus();
 
        event = perf_event_alloc(&attr, cpu, task, group_leader, NULL,
                                 NULL, NULL);
        if (IS_ERR(event)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(event);
-               goto err_task;
+               goto err_cpus;
        }
 
        if (flags & PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP) {
                err = perf_cgroup_connect(pid, event, &attr, group_leader);
                if (err) {
                        __free_event(event);
-                       goto err_task;
+                       goto err_cpus;
                }
        }
 
@@ -7256,8 +7262,9 @@ err_context:
        put_ctx(ctx);
 err_alloc:
        free_event(event);
-err_task:
+err_cpus:
        put_online_cpus();
+err_task:
        if (task)
                put_task_struct(task);
 err_group_fd:
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