RE: [tip:perf/core] Revert "perf: Remove the extra validity check on nr_pages"

[Liang, Kan]

> 
> 
> * 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?

nr_pages == 0 is valid, we cannot return -EINVAL. Because 
	vma_size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
	nr_pages = (vma_size / PAGE_SIZE) - 1;

So here we only want to check is_power_of_2
when the pages > 1 (or nr_pages > 0).

Thanks,
Kan

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo
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