[PATCH 06/16] perf, persistent: Return -EACCES if mapped buffers must be readonly

[Robert Richter]

From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxxxxxx>

mmap should return EACCES error if fd can not be opened writable.
This error code also helps userland to map buffers readonly on
failure.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 0730f36..a9b6470 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3761,7 +3761,7 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (event->attr.persistent && (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -EACCES;
 
 	vma_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
 	nr_pages = (vma_size / PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
-- 
1.8.1.1

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