From f65cb45cba63f249458b669aa67069eabc37b2f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:40:44 +0100 Subject: perfcounters: flush on setuid exec Pavel Machek pointed out that performance counters should be flushed when crossing protection domains on setuid execution. Reported-by: Pavel Machek Acked-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- fs/exec.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index ec5df9a38313..d5165d899a49 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -1017,6 +1018,13 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) set_dumpable(current->mm, suid_dumpable); } + /* + * Flush performance counters when crossing a + * security domain: + */ + if (!get_dumpable(current->mm)) + perf_counter_exit_task(current); + /* An exec changes our domain. We are no longer part of the thread group */ -- cgit v1.2.1 From 8d1b2d9361b494bfc761700c348c65ebbe3deb5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:01:30 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: track task-comm data Similar to the mmap data stream, add one that tracks the task COMM field, so that the userspace reporting knows what to call a task. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Corey Ashford LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.127422406@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- fs/exec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index e015c0b5a082..bf47ed0278ff 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf) task_lock(tsk); strlcpy(tsk->comm, buf, sizeof(tsk->comm)); task_unlock(tsk); + perf_counter_comm(tsk); } int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm) -- cgit v1.2.1