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 <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index ec5df9a..d5165d8 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/perf_counter.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/key.h>
@@ -1017,6 +1018,13 @@
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 */