Re: [tip:perf/core] Revert "perf: Remove the extra validity check on nr_pages"
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 03 2015 - 03:44:19 EST
* tip-bot for Kan Liang <tipbot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -4446,7 +4446,7 @@ static int perf_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> * If we have rb pages ensure they're a power-of-two number, so we
> * can do bitmasks instead of modulo.
> */
> - if (!is_power_of_2(nr_pages))
> + if (nr_pages != 0 && !is_power_of_2(nr_pages))
> return -EINVAL;
Hm, what does is_power_of_2(0) return? It should return 0, because 0
is not a power of 2!
and if it's fixed to return 0, then the check should properly be
something like:
if (!nr_pages || !is_power_of_2(nr_pages))
or so?
Thanks,
Ingo
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