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Matt Helsley authored
The kernel perf event creation path shouldn't use find_task_by_vpid() because a vpid exists in a specific namespace. find_task_by_vpid() uses current's pid namespace which isn't always the correct namespace to use for the vpid in all the places perf_event_create_kernel_counter() (and thus find_get_context()) is called. The goal is to clean up pid namespace handling and prevent bugs like: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17281 Instead of using pids switch find_get_context() to use task struct pointers directly. The syscall is responsible for resolving the pid to a task struct. This moves the pid namespace resolution into the syscall much like every other syscall that takes pid parameters. Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robin Green <greenrd@greenrd.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <a134e5e392ab0204961fd1a62c84a222bf5874a9.1284407763.git.matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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