[tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: sanity check on the output API

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Commit-ID:  91d876bd14c82826b69bf23f502cb283959ebb1f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/91d876bd14c82826b69bf23f502cb283959ebb1f
Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:30:24 +0100
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:02:52 +0100

perf_counter: sanity check on the output API

Ensure we never write more than we said we would.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.921433024@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
 kernel/perf_counter.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index d76e311..7669afe 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
 	struct perf_counter	*counter;
 	struct perf_mmap_data	*data;
 	unsigned int		offset;
+	unsigned int		head;
 	int			wakeup;
 };
 
@@ -1447,6 +1448,7 @@ static int perf_output_begin(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	handle->counter	= counter;
 	handle->data	= data;
 	handle->offset	= offset;
+	handle->head	= head;
 	handle->wakeup	= (offset >> PAGE_SHIFT) != (head >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1485,6 +1487,8 @@ static void perf_output_copy(struct perf_output_handle *handle,
 	} while (len);
 
 	handle->offset = offset;
+
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(handle->offset > handle->head);
 }
 
 #define perf_output_put(handle, x) \
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