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 <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5242DB0C.4070005@t-online.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index d49a9d2..b25d65c 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
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;