Re: [PATCH, net-next] perf, bpf: fix conditional call to bpf_overflow_handler

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Tue Sep 06 2016 - 11:34:03 EST


On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:10:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The newly added bpf_overflow_handler function is only built of both
> CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING and CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL are enabled, but the caller
> only checks the latter:
>
> kernel/events/core.c: In function 'perf_event_alloc':
> kernel/events/core.c:9106:27: error: 'bpf_overflow_handler' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> This changes the caller so we also skip this call if CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING
> is disabled entirely.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: aa6a5f3cb2b2 ("perf, bpf: add perf events core support for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs")
> ---
> kernel/events/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> I'm not entirely sure if this is the correct solution, please check before applying

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix. Just saw build bot complaining last night and
by the morning your fix is already here. Thanks!