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Commit 25f42985 authored by Stephane Eranian's avatar Stephane Eranian Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/x86: Fix broken LBR fixup code



I noticed that the LBR fixups were not working anymore
on programs where they used to. I tracked this down to
a recent change to copy_from_user_nmi():

 db0dc75d ("perf/x86: Check user address explicitly in copy_from_user_nmi()")

This commit added a call to __range_not_ok() to the
copy_from_user_nmi() routine. The problem is that the logic
of the test must be reversed. __range_not_ok() returns 0 if the
range is VALID. We want to return early from copy_from_user_nmi()
if the range is NOT valid.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarArun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120611134426.GA7542@quad


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 9ee6ddc9
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