From 723478c8a471403c53cf144999701f6e0c4bbd11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Knut Petersen Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:29:37 +0200 Subject: perf: Enforce 1 as lower limit for perf_event_max_sample_rate /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_sample_rate will accept negative values as well as 0. Negative values are unreasonable, and 0 causes a divide by zero exception in perf_proc_update_handler. This patch enforces a lower limit of 1. Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/events/core.c') diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d49a9d29334c..b25d65ce7106 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int perf_proc_update_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos) { - int ret = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); + int ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos); if (ret || !write) return ret; -- cgit v1.2.1