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arm64: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec

This is a port of cb2d8b342aa0 ("ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation
when using enable_on_exec") to arm64, which fixes the event validation
checking so that events in the OFF state are still considered when
enable_on_exec is true.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Will Deacon 12 years ago
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      arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c

+ 4 - 1
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c

@@ -325,7 +325,10 @@ validate_event(struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events,
 	if (is_software_event(event))
 		return 1;
 
-	if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state <= PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
+	if (event->pmu != leader_pmu || event->state < PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (event->state == PERF_EVENT_STATE_OFF && !event->attr.enable_on_exec)
 		return 1;
 
 	return armpmu->get_event_idx(hw_events, &fake_event) >= 0;