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Subject[ 019/117] arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec
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3.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

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 <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
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;



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