hw_breakpoint: Add perf_event_attr fields check in __modify_user_hw_breakpoint()
And rename it to modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check(). We are about to use modify_user_hw_breakpoint_check() for user space breakpoints modification, we must be very strict to check only the fields we can change have changed. As Peter explained: "Suppose someone does: attr = malloc(sizeof(*attr)); // uninitialized memory attr->type = BP; attr->bp_addr = new_addr; attr->bp_type = bp_type; attr->bp_len = bp_len; ioctl(fd, PERF_IOC_MOD_ATTR, &attr); And feeds absolute shite for the rest of the fields. Then we later want to extend IOC_MOD_ATTR to allow changing attr::sample_type but we can't, because that would break the above application." I'm making this check optional because we already export modify_user_hw_breakpoint() and with this check we could break existing users. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Milind Chabbi <chabbi.milind@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <onestero@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312134548.31532-6-jolsa@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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