Re: PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER has different values based on bitness

From: David Ahern
Date: Tue Oct 07 2014 - 20:53:31 EST


On 10/7/14, 6:50 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 963bf139e2b2..c805132ac1cf 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3714,6 +3714,7 @@ static long perf_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned
int cmd, unsigned long arg)
}

case PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER:
+ case PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_FILTER_32:
return perf_event_set_filter(event, (void __user *)arg);

default:


Oh, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID has the same problem:

#define PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID _IOR('$', 7, __u64 *)

The right way is to add a compat_perf_ioctl()

Sure, looked into that way as well. But SET_FILTER and IOC_ID will still compile to the same values for a 64-bit kernel.

David

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